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 →
Moj: All HDR Videos Are Dolby Vision
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 →
AV1, Film Grain Synthesis, AOM Patent License 1.0 & Dolby
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 →
HDR Consistency Across Streaming Platforms, Web Browsers, AMOLED, QD-OLED & MiniLED
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 →
Senior Colorist: The Worst Practice In The Industry
https://youtu.be/uGEFmZeVcMk?si=AXhomwBBVYgdL3Yc Lots of great stuff in here, including. their opinions of Dolby Vision derived SDR vs. a manual SDR grade and what it's like to see their work at home on an LG or plasma TV or on a smartphone. “Some of the worst practices I've seen in this industry have been people dumbing down... Continue Reading →
India’s Largest Short Video Platform Teams Up With Dolby Labs
My experience today joining Moj app is nothing but spectacular, right from uploading my first reel & instantly seeing it as HDR & it remained HDR constantly then within few mins turning on the Dolby Vision logo on Reels was unbelievable. I tried posting different kinds of HDR material & they all show up as... Continue Reading →
Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 Update
First of all, color management. We'd stick with one of Dolby Professional's recommendations: DaVinci YRGB Color Managed (auto) Color Processing Mode - HDR. Output Color Space - HDR HLG. DaVinci YRGB Color Managed (auto unchecked) Color Processing Mode - HDR Rec.2020 HLG. Output Color Space - Rec.2020/Rec.2100 HLG "For the Color Management setting, there are... Continue Reading →
Filmbox: More “HDR-ish” Images In Future Update?
We purchased a subscription to Video Village’s Filmbox back in February but were disappointed that highlights roll off at just a couple hundred nits, which is why we are no longer able to recommend the plugin for HDR. When we mentioned this peculiar behavior over at the liftgammagain colorist forum, Greg Cotten, the developer of... Continue Reading →
Dolby Vision Technical Updates Webinar – Fall 2023
https://youtu.be/BnIPFVFtzwc?si=dEuCBDLuUL7v_kWy Review the latest in Dolby Vision technical updates, color grading best practices, and other topics including: Dolby Vision License changes Improved L1 analysis Long Play analysis mode, HDMI tunnelling and 300-nit target display in Baselight SDR to Dolby Vision workflows New Dolby Vision 3D profile for Head Mounted Displays To us, the most interesting... Continue Reading →
Unhinged YouTuber: HDR Is A Scam
It's obvious most of these other reviewers like Stop the Fomo, Digital Trends, and HDTV Test are just satanist in disguise. Every time I've seen one of their videos you can tell they are trying to brain wash the masses into their gay liberal satanic atheist agenda. Quantum TV Quantum TV, a YouTube channel with... Continue Reading →
Gamut Rings OFX Plugin For DaVinci Resolve Available For Purchase
https://youtu.be/QHl7FcWa-ng?si=1U8CfuFauNL-jP9T A game-changing innovation in HDR visualization. Discover the revolutionary tool, first presented at IBC 2023. Good news & bad news. First, the good news: Florian Friedrich teamed up with Dr. Kenichiro Masaoka, the inventor of gamut rings, to develop a standalone OFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve, which comes bundled together with the InnoPQ HDRmaster... Continue Reading →
New Dolby Vision L1 Analysis Improves SDR Version
This morning's Dolby Vision Technical Webinar introduced a new 3D analysis, automated SDR to HDR conversion and perhaps most exciting of all (scratch the perhaps - it's the most notable update of the day!) - a new tunable L1 analysis algorithm that is not only 20% faster, but which substantially improves the Dolby Vision derived... Continue Reading →
Anything Wider Than Rec.709 Is WCG
Just as ‘anything greater than 100 nits’ is not a definition of HDR, neither is ‘anything wider than Rec.709’ necessarily WCG. Display Daily reports: Chris Chinnock, commenting on a story about a new laser projector, said, “It annoys me when multiple companies cite a color gamut spec of 110% of BT.2020. What they mean is the... Continue Reading →
Grading Tip
Because there's so much leeway for placing exposure in post, it's all too easy to grade HDR footage so that it ends up too bright and over-saturated. We used to occasionally use the luma/sat curves in Resolve to reduce saturation in either the shadows, the highlights, or both in order to achieve a more 'film-like'... Continue Reading →
Samsung Display XCR
The convention in the past 100 years of colorimetry has been to solely measure the response of the achromatic visual pathway when discussing brightness and human visual sensitivity. - Samsung Display “Samsung Display argues that 'perceived brightness' should be used rather than 'luminance' due to how our eyes and brain work. Samsung Display's XCR measurement... Continue Reading →
Variability of Diffuse White Levels in HDR
On the left, SDR is very uniform, with mean diffuse white sitting at around 60 nits, while HDR shows high variability. A range of content, from indoor and outdoor sports, stand up comedy, nature programs and talk shows to movies was included. The variability in luminance range is indicative of greater creative freedom in the... Continue Reading →
HDR: Colorist Talks Rubbish
Ever since coming into contact with HDR-loathing Steve Yedlin, Cullen Kelly's discourse on HDR has become more and more detached from reality. "As I just mentioned, the problem is that it's very difficult to get a sense for what color space metric is required for me to deliver HDR to YouTube and what metadata has... Continue Reading →
Contempt
Ed Lachman appears to have nothing but contempt for HDR, so it's unclear why Netflix chose to stream El Conde in Dolby Vision. Just the same, Lachman must be given credit for repudiating the notion that filmmakers had been shooting HDR for over a century without even knowing it. "The technical apparatus of constructing images is being... Continue Reading →
Brawley BM Cinema Camera Sample Footage Not Playable
Four of the five graded files we downloaded from John Brawley's Palmdale Diner sample footage are HDR10, but none of them are playable using QuickTime or the IINA player for macOS, because they were mastered in DCI P3 rather than BT2020 (P3-D65 Limited). Picture credit: John Brawley. Girl at Diner in Open Gate 6K When... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 