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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 →
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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 →
UPDATE: HDR game picture quality between the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 is largely consistent as well, dispelling the myth that HDR is the wild west. Whether gaming, streaming, or sharing to social media, HDR is very predictable. While not identical in every respect, the presentation of our HDR videos across various video sharing platforms like Vimeo, YouTube and... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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