In our untiring commitment to being the ultimate resource for those seeking factual information on uploading HDR videos to YouTube, we’ve added another comparison that aspires to settle the question: should you be transcoding XAVC S-I to HEVC or to ProRes 422 when uploading to YouTube? This 10-second clip took 83 seconds to finish processing… Read More
a7s III: Astonishing RAW HDR
The video was shot in available light, no reflectors or diffusers. Equipment used: iFootage Wildbull T7 tripod, Tuba cage, Bright Tangerine Titan arm, Ninja V.
Dolby Colorist Shane Ruggieri On Grading a7s III HDR Footage
This weekend, Armando Ferriera will be uploading a video to his YouTube channel in which house colorist at Dolby Laboratories in California Shane Ruggieri talks about his workflow grading a7s III footage. Shane is one of the world’s foremost experts on high dynamic range video. And here it is!
a7s III: HDR Showdown + Downloadable ProRes RAW HQ Footage!
More HDR Tests
I shot S-log3 XAVC S-I this afternoon, making sure to ETTR, with zebras set to 94%. After pulling down highlights and boosting saturation a smidgen, I think I’m seeing some banding in the wall to the right behind me (over my left shoulder). Aside from that, I’m very pleased at how the image turned out:… Read More
Things Are Shaping Up
The a7s III has lots going for it: superb eye detect autofocus in video at up to 120 fps, an articulating touch screen LCD, indisputably the best EVF of any mirrorless camera, edit-friendly codecs with tiny file sizes, the red frame that surrounds the image in the LCD when you’re recording video, a full size… Read More
Vincent Teoh: Colorists Should Consider an OLED TV
Vincent Teoh, in his unboxing video of the Panasonic HZ1000 OLED TV, corroborates what I’ve been saying for months now, which is that an OLED display should outperform Apple’s Pro Display XDR for HDR grading, and just might be the best budget option short of a reference monitor. When I reviewed the Apple Pro Display… Read More
Should You Be Using a Production Monitor for Grading HDR in 2020?
Just a few years ago, when HDR was still in its infancy and VESA had not yet even published standards for HDR monitors, Atomos, along with Mystery Box and several other influential content creators, were advocating the use of production monitors for grading HDR video on a budget – with some even going so far… Read More
Philip Bloom’s FX9 Test Footage in HDR
Shogun Inferno Unable to Record HLG
The reason I bought the Inferno in the first place was to be able to record HLG for delivery in HDR as well as for use as an HDR grading monitor. So it came as quite a surprise after importing the footage from today’s shoot to discover that the Prores HQ files I’d imported into… Read More
