HDR Discussion Thread

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Protocols due out Monday - https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-due-next-week....

pushed back - https://deadline.com/2020/05/califor...ek-1202943467/

meanwhile - https://www.instagram.com/accounts/l...p/CAdy0QNpwLP/

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

haven’t had the chance to compare and contrast the two threads
pure copycat or does the thread by Arrow offer anything at all original/different?

Copy and paste so far, other than some images he got from someone else using a Sony reference monitor. He's investigating ways to start getting tools to do this himself.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

Copy and paste so far, other than some images he got from someone else using a Sony reference monitor. He's investigating ways to start getting tools to do this himself.

well to spiff it up some, he should try to throw in an occasional pearl or two, as there is always info most people (including independent contractor colorists) are unaware of, for example, in this case with regards to a popular client monitor, 18:30 timestamp -

Mad Max Fury Road Colorist Eric Whipp Answers Fans Questions - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

colorists

tomorrow, this free 1 hour class for a chance at winning Remote Classroom training on Color Grading Feature Films featuring ‘White Lines’ (or perhaps aka - Memoirs from a Waboman) – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/davinci...f973f-57007043

WHITE LINES | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Memoirs from a Waboman)

whereas, this is more my style –

[Penton-Man]

top of the mornin

pre-pandemic times - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...g#post16779683

post-pandemic times, same hangar –



makes me wonder for those others here who eventually may have grandchildren and they ask “Grandpa, what did you do during the great coronavirus pandemic?”

[Penton-Man]

free SMPTE webcast on July 9 “will discuss strategies for color correction in both SDR and HDR, and ideas for focusing on color decisions that will hold up across multiple color targets and viewing conditions, using case examples from the author’s experience with over 100 HDR titles -

https://www.smpte.org/webcast/case-s...hdr-versus-sdr

[BrownianMotion]

Some gaming related HDR news. The new Xbox Series X will feature AI-based HDR reconstruction, which will add HDR to older games that were originally in SDR. Evil Boris explains how it works.

Older Games Get AI-Built HDR on XBOX SERIES X : How Does It Work? - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

is that ^ you? EvilBoris of video heatmap fame?

Originally Posted by EvilBoris

what we can see

Yo, Adam, do you know what colormap images these are of? Actually, quite important in determining what you do -

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by BrownianMotion

gaming

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/b...nreal-engine-5

Some innovative thinkers believe that with such rapid advancements from ^ Unreal, as well as others in the VR space, it’s only a matter of time before it impacts film departments in many productions.

more - https://rendered.substack.com/p/rendered-1

[Waboman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

tomorrow, this free 1 hour class for a chance at winning Remote Classroom training on Color Grading Feature Films featuring ‘White Lines’ (or perhaps aka - Memoirs from a Waboman) – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/davinci...f973f-57007043

WHITE LINES | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

do you know what colormap images these are of? Actually, quite important in determining what you do -

[Show spoiler]

Severe thunderstorms. Seek shelter.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Flashback Friday….back to 2018

before anyone online (except for you readers here) knew this -> https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...e#post15774685

a follow-up: stories from last month from a former Naval aviator and now actor -
https://www.buzzsprout.com/789413/3400408-doug-lito

who appeared in this scene –



as seen in the 2nd trailer (released prior to the COVID-19 pandemic) –

Top Gun: Maverick (2020) – New Trailer - Paramount Pictures - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Severe thunderstorms

the colormaps have more to do with light than sound

[Lee A Stewart]

Is it Time to Standardize Metadata in the Broadcast Environment?

https://displaydaily.com/article/dis...st-environment

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

That thread is taking info from THIS forum in the 4K Blu-ray section (the HDR heat map thread). So you can stick to this forum and get all the relevant data.

What a cheeky ****!

[edit]

Still, given how utterly dead the Blu-ray software forum is at AVS I guess it needed some pepping up

[Penton-Man]

new document, “addresses confusion regarding the use of different video ranges. The most important one involves distinguishing between 'full' and 'narrow' range video” - https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2020/05/ebu...ignals-and-hdr

[mrtickleuk]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

new document, “addresses confusion regarding the use of different video ranges. The most important one involves distinguishing between 'full' and 'narrow' range video” - https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2020/05/ebu...ignals-and-hdr

Thanks! That's a very nice clear diagram too

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

You probably don't keep up with all the respective threads for individual titles (all that bike riding's gotta tire a man out),

BCVA

Free Guy | Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX - YouTube

(release date shifted to December)

and yet another out of this shop – https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...s#post15626055

[DisplayCalNoob]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

new document, “addresses confusion regarding the use of different video ranges. The most important one involves distinguishing between 'full' and 'narrow' range video” - https://tech.ebu.ch/news/2020/05/ebu...ignals-and-hdr

I personally would like to know what is lost in tonal range, when what was color graded at full range PQ is encoded at YCbCr 4:4:4 lossless.

Because Im currently seeing way more color and white detail compared to YCbCr. Maybe its time for YCbCr to be put to bed.

[Penton-Man]

https://www.sagaftra.org/files/sa_do...r%206-1-20.pdf