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There is one warning: any windows or highlights that are clipped in exposure at shooting stage will likely require softening in the grade and a blur (halation) applied. Clipped exposure in HDR can be quite visually undesirable, so where possible be mindful of it during shooting. It’s probably the only downside of HDR grading/mastering. Thomas... Continue Reading →
During an interview four years ago, Jesús Colmenar, the executive director and producer of Money Heist, didn’t think that UHD HDR would be accepted by viewers. What follows is an excerpt from that interview. And I guess “Money Heist” is being prepared for 8K. Migue Amoedo: We are shooting in 7K with an 8K sensor, but as... Continue Reading →
The MicroLED Industry Association (MIA) has published MicroLEDs 2023: State of the industry and future roadmap, a non-member summary of the full document, which paints a bleak picture for those of us who were hoping to snatch a 77” microLED TV before being dispatched to an assisted living residence. MicroLED Market and Industry Landscape Mass... Continue Reading →
David Abrams, Senior Calman Product Manager at Portrait Displays, explains: “We’ve already set up our system for HDR and we’ve already done BT.2020 but the monitor has a second memory based on its color space flag. So remember, we were talking about the info frame flag that content sends to the display to say, ‘I’m... Continue Reading →
Understanding the interplay between display limitations, viewer comfort and creative intent is critical for HDR grading. This post examines three pivotal constraints. Power Budget In their most accurate picture modes, flagship OLED TVs like the Sony A95L can reach as much as 265 cd/m² full screen brightness, which most OLED TVs can’t begin to approach;... Continue Reading →
Samsung Display's marketing materials imply that no color filters are used in their QD-OLED displays, which is not 100% true. High color gamut requires very low blue light leakage. As can be seen in the illustrations, without any color filters at all, blue light leakage will occur in the red and green channels, impacting gamut... Continue Reading →
Because, why not? 🙂 https://youtu.be/i0fKpCgHVRc
Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan's The Night Logan Woke Up, a five-episode psychological thriller based on a play by Michel Marc Bouchard, is the director's first TV series. Shot on 16mm film, the work was screened at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, won six Prix Gémeaux and was picked up by Netflix; only since it's not available... Continue Reading →
Apple Log is vastly superior to the over-processed HDR video we've become accustomed to since the iPhone 12. Clips uploaded to Dolby Vision compatible apps will display the Dolby Vision logo, while Instagram Reels will process the video as HDR without dynamic metadata. Several of our videos have turned into SDR since uploading to IG,... Continue Reading →
As of last month, here's a list of social media and instant messaging platforms around the world that currently support Dolby Vision. To enjoy Dolby Vision content, your playback device must support Dolby Vision. Since the iPhone 12, the first mobile device to record directly in Dolby Vision, Apple has continued to expand support for creating and... Continue Reading →
High dynamic range video is without question going to look best in a dim viewing environment. However, given that content on mobile devices is viewed under a wide variety of lighting conditions, what are the best monitoring & delivery practices when editing Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 for social media? Apple’s developer document Ambient Viewing Environment... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/uGEFmZeVcMk?si=0GIBJeDHVWIFFSnE Shocking, right? Dolby's Conversations With Colorists: Picture Shop was far and away one of the most successful, most viewed videos on their channel (140K views as of this writing), so it's hoped that they get the message and start programming more discussions with DPs and colorists about Dolby Vision and HDR in the near... Continue Reading →
The Killer, David Fincher’s action/thriller based on the eponymous French graphic novel series and starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton will begin streaming on Netflix November 10. The film is yet another collaboration between DP Erik Messerschmidt, ASC, director David Fincher and colorist Eric Weidt. Postperspective spoke with Weidt about the grade, writing: The master grade... Continue Reading →
Tom Graham, Head of Dolby Vision Content Enablement, asked three top colorists working in film & television - all senior colorists at Picture Shop - how they felt their work looks on consumer displays. TG: Some colorists will say, ‘I don’t watch my stuff on TV, I've already watched the show’, but how do you guys... Continue Reading →
To upload HDR videos directly to IG from an iPhone, set Media quality in Instagram to Upload at highest quality, in the camera app, enable HDR Video, confirm that your Facebook and Instagram accounts are connected, turn off the phone's auto-brightness setting and record HEVC at 4K 30 fps. Disable True Tone. Using AirDrop with... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/L8uKGOXL-4o?si=7pqlclFxmcGxnxWA Dolby Vision encodes from DaVinci Resolve Studio are predominantly used for review and approval purposes, peer-to-peer sharing and for distribution to social media services. Therefore, this can be used after grading, performing Dolby Vision analysis and doing additional trims. Navigate to the Deliver page and select H.265 from the available presets at the top... Continue Reading →
During an appearance on Cullen Kelly’s Grade School, the brilliant colorist Jill Bogdanowicz revealed a secret to accentuating texture without it looking over-processed. While working on Joker, the colorist used Live Grain – which separates out the red, green and blue channels, creating grain that resembles scanned film – to accentuate texture in the cooler,... Continue Reading →
Update: As of June 2023, close to 20,000 Dolby Vision videos had been uploaded to the video sharing platform since the launch, according to Moj. Yet, as of November 24, 2023, Team Moj says that Dolby Vision is ‘in the experiment phase.’ Yesterday was nothing if not strange. To begin with, in the morning, all... Continue Reading →
Shout out to our facebook member Tyler Darlington, who asked, “What is the relationship between Dolby Vision encoding and AV1?”, thanks to which, through a bit of searching, we learned that the European Patent Office revoked all claims to a patent held by Dolby that was deemed essential to AV1 - in particular, patent EP’097,... Continue Reading →
While not identical in every respect, the presentation of our HDR videos across various video sharing platforms like Vimeo, YouTube and Moj (a bit of an outlier!), QuickTime player, as well as on different devices, like our iPhone, laptop and TV is remarkably consistent - far more so than our experience with SDR video ever... Continue Reading →
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