HDR Monitor

[David Roth weiss]

What the shooters shoot is not as important typically as what the final product is. What are your deliverables?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Dan Davis]

Thanks for getting back to me.

Normally I deliver ProRes HQ files straight out of resolve to the client.

[David Roth weiss]

But, are you delivering HDR or just HD? If you’re still delivering HD
then hold off worrying about HDR for a while until prices drop and availability increases.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Dan Davis]

HD delivery at the moment. But if I was asked to deliver HDR can I monitor to an extent using the monitor I have?

Thanks again.

[Marc Wielage]

[Dan Davis] “HD delivery at the moment. But if I was asked to deliver HDR can I monitor to an extent using the monitor I have?”
My opinion is no. You have to actually calibrate the monitor for SMPTE 2084 and/or 2020 for HDR/extended color gamut. It won’t work with a display designed for Rec709.

I personally wouldn’t worry about it until such time that HDR becomes a big delivery requirement. In theory, you will be able to hook up an HDR display then change the output gamut/gamma of Resolve, then do a trim pass to compensate. The chapter on HDR & Dolby Vision in the 12.5 manual (pp. 177-190) go into a lot of detail on the issues involved. I’m not convinced a $995 Costco “HDR” display is going to work for color grading.

[Dan Davis]

Thanks for that, very helpful.

Dan

[John Sellars]

Did anyone else see the consumer 4k HDR LG G6 OLED (about $6000 for the 55″) display at the Flanders booth with their new BoxIO LUT box?

[Marc Wielage]

Alexis Van Hurkman has a very good (and long) article on grading for HDR and some of the complexities involved:

https://vanhurkman.com/wordpress/?p=3548

[Dan Davis]

Great read. Thank you for the link!

Dan