HDR Discussion Thread

[LordoftheRings]

Sometime (this year, 2021), somewhere (on Netflix), in HDR ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKz5...ature=youtu.be

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Right on man; we love our pets, we love our motorcycles, we love our healthy bodies, we love great movies, we love great documentaries, we love our tunes, we love quality pictures ... all in High Dynamic Range. We love our cameras, we love our displays, we love our gear, we love our food, we love life in the fast lane. We love top guns, we love Tom, Gerry and Chuck.

Throwback Thursday, one year ago in the DI –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWb41w0SgWM#t=32m40s
and reminiscing in detail about collaborating with Sony in the design of the Venice with its built-in NDs, etc. and the Sony Rialto (camera extension system) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWb41w0SgWM#t=51m28s

to a lot of discussion about filming scenes in Top Gun: Maverick -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWb41w0SgWM#t=56m7s
(b.t.w., insider tidbit - the guy with his fluffing hair in the breeze with the jet flying over in the behind the scenes trailer is BJ)

[Robert Zohn]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Kevin S. (President of CSI - https://coloristsociety.com/ ) didn’t explicitly specify as to which, so does anyone know what type (technology-wise) professional displays Kevin is referring to with this comment today - “it’s already being discontinued in the professional displays”), timestamp here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...4Zck4#t=12m28s

Some here might be surprised as to the answer and no, he’s not referring to professional RGB oleds, that being old news.

It's ProArt PA32UCG, which is a 32" MiniLED LCD IPS professional color grading and final film finishing HDR monitor.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

"well-rounded"

Even though a VP at Sony Electronics, for the life of him, couldn’t tell the difference between the superior vena cava and the aortic root, it’s good when he shows recent interest in by using Unreal Engine - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/

to produce incredibly fast and high quality (4K) images for a new generation of DICOM viewer - https://www.facebook.com/Viewtify/vi...2478803810439/

[Penton-Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWb41w0SgWM#t=59m28s

no problemo -

[Penton-Man]

In case ^ Commanders, Claudio and cinematography -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Claudio and assistant converting an Angenieux from S35 to Full Frame for the Sony Venice –

are not readers’ cup of tea with regards to this upcoming HDR motion picture, then working remotely vis-à-vis Evercast (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...t#post18955846)

on Top Gun: Maverick (which, b.t.w., took almost a year to edit)….and more insights –

This Friday "Top Gun: Maverick" Editor Eddie Hamilton, ACE Joins Filmmaker U Live at 2PM EDT! - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

The most difficult scene Eddie’s ever done and is most proud of , as served up here with regards to the particular pilots flying – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...n#post16871631

in his own words, as an editor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2hYZoUHp8g#t=31m44s

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

The most difficult scene Eddie’s ever done

Eddie Van Halen? Eddie Vedder? Eddie from Iron Maiden? Eddie spaghetti?

[BrownianMotion]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Even though a VP at Sony Electronics, for the life of him, couldn’t tell the difference between the superior vena cava and the aortic root, it’s good when he shows recent interest in by using Unreal Engine - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/

to produce incredibly fast and high quality (4K) images for a new generation of DICOM viewer - https://www.facebook.com/Viewtify/vi...2478803810439/

Interesting. Unreal Engine 5 looks very promising with Nanite and Lumen. I tested a demo a few weeks ago and it looked superb. I know several films and TV shows have used Unreal Engine 4 in the past.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Eddie Van Halen? Eddie Vedder? Eddie from Iron Maiden? Eddie spaghetti?

Stay positive
(on location ^, Breakers Beach)

Wabs
only - https://yourcountdown.to/top-gun-2

some members of the team there –

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by BrownianMotion

Interesting. Unreal Engine 5 looks very promising with Nanite and Lumen. I tested a demo a few weeks ago and it looked superb. I know several films and TV shows have used Unreal Engine 4 in the past.

it's pretty amazing

[Penton-Man]

The Early Days of Netflix Streaming and Perspective. - Ep.29 - YouTube

^ Near the end, they talked briefly about the environmental cost of exponential video growth and the fact that the video community can no longer assume infinite cloud capacity and must consider the environmental impact of video (compression and its understanding). I really wish all the bitcoin mining people would be as sensitive about the environment in terms of what they’re doing as David is.

P.S.
Around the 7 min. timestamp, David recalls the infamous use of Blu-ray, the Sony PlayStation 3 player and the Netflix disc, which was a boot loader for…. Also, on a historical note, he gives several well-deserved shout outs to Anne .

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by LordoftheRings

Back to HDR/Dolby Vision and iPhone 12 Pro Max ...

looking forward to it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd_2xibKx9s#t=1m13s

[Penton-Man]

Flashing forward from this post 13 years ago -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

...from inquiring minds asking me to elaborate on the StEM material I spoke about a few pages back.

In that regard, the StEM (movie short) was a collaborative effort between American Society of Cinematographers and DCI. More than two hours of film were captured in 35mm (and to be completely accurate, a small amount in 65 mm also) by a world-class team of ASC cinematographers. The footage featured a bunch of scenes with a variety of lighting conditions, colors, textures and other variables of photographic definition including rain, confetti, fog, smoke, etc. The footage accumulated was intentionally made to stress the system (i.e. theatrical presentation of the imagery). It was edited down to a mini-movie consisting mostly of 35mm original source and a little bit of 65mm. Eastman negative 5218 (think Van Helsing) was the primary stock and 5245 was used for the shot tilting down from the sky.

The location was Uni’s “European Village" backlot with a wedding scene (b.t.w., the groom in a tuxedo and the bride in a wedding gown is a great way to test blacks and whites) set-up similar to the one in The Godfather. The StEM material also includes some 4k CGI from Disney’s Treasure Planet.

We now have the beginning of the creation of StEM2 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...al-1234980577/

[Penton-Man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd_2xibKx9s#t=1m13s
^ which is excerpted from this video –

A Story in my Hand in Dolby Vision - YouTube

and is a project which I think will be a nice learning tool for beginners; meanwhile, for those interested in doing an immediate deeper dive into learning how to create an HDR video on for example a C9 or CX series LG OLED as well as other stuff, there’s this free video course - https://learnhdrvideo.com/

[Penton-Man]

attention UKers, so as not to be so Vancouver-ish - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s#post19039275

and sunny weather Laguna Hills centric -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

for you folks across the pond, this chance to win BIG - https://www.bluebeards-revenge.co.uk/snakeeyes/

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

chance to win BIG - https://www.bluebeards-revenge.co.uk/snakeeyes/

and because I figure you Brits need some cheering up this week as there likely hasn’t been much fist bumping going on over there since that first goal in the Final –

Tom Cruise and David Beckham fist bumps Euro 2020 final England vs Italy - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-t...mcast-xfinity/
^ Like mine, how ‘bout one of Wabo’s favorite passtimes, mountain biking -

Originally Posted by Waboman

An enigma wrapped in too tight bicycle shorts?

will we get traversing the rock garden from cross country course in HDR or SDR? –

Japan Olympics XCO Test Race Part 4 - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

chance to win BIG - https://www.bluebeards-revenge.co.uk/snakeeyes/
....and because I figure you Brits need some cheering up this week

apparently, LG shares the same ^ sentiment and is also striving to ease the pain -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarc...h=345380ca59e5
;otherwise, I guess you can get out the house and watch something on the BIG screen - https://imaxexclusive.dunemovie.com/intl/

[DDH]

Flanders Scientific XM312U- 5,000nit HDR Mastering Monitor
https://www.newsshooter.com/2021/07/...ering-monitor/