Films shot in Dolby Vision?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Richard Paul

I think it is mainly to get people interested in the idea of Dolby Cinema and to try to sell that idea to theater owners...

Wait till they find out the cost of the build out.

Originally Posted by Richard Paul

For something like a nature documentary I could see Dolby Vision being easy to do but for movies it sounds difficult. I would like to see a movie made from the start for Dolby Vision but I get the feeling that most movies will be some kind of HDR conversion.

Well, to keep things in perspective, that wouldn’t be sooo bad, contrary to the rushed-out-the-door early 3D conversions that were produced back in the day.

For one thing, unless one is referring to the HDR conversion (remastering) of old motion pictures (a la Rob Marshall’s Chicago in Dolby Vision), a new motion picture really wouldn’t be an HDR conversion, per se, even if one exactly exposes scenes as you typically would for only a traditional digital cinema finish (standard dynamic range) and then in post production do an ‘HDR’ finish because the HDR finish would actually come first (be your primary grade or hero master) and then with the aid of the DV plugin you’d then do a quick trim pass for other (standard dynamic range) deliverables.

It’s just that in order to get the ‘full’ effect out of any high/extended dynamic range solution that can leverage the broad dynamic range at the sensor level of high end digital cameras, or film, I think there will have to be additional adjustments (incurring cost) on set during the production process.