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Film grain looks awful in streamed content. Netflix uses AV1, which denoises the footage then adds synthesized grain back, but it’s got a lot of issues. In the only study of its kind, participants found AV1 film grain synthesis (FGS) to be suboptimal. A Subjective Study of Film Grain Synthesis...

I am however grateful to Yedlin for his demonstration proving once and for all that shadow detail is decidely not HDR’s greatest advantage, as many filmmakers ignorantly repeat. Nor is it color. It’s the highlights...

With all due respect, Yedlin’s coining offensive terminology like ‘punching through the ceiling’ to refer to HDR highlights & repeating it several dozen times throughout the presentation, ensuring that we’ll be hearing this imbecilic phrase ad naseum from his fans for years to come; his...

A total waste of two hours of my life.

In addition to the simple fact that HDR actually enhances contrast, off the top of my head, I can name well over a half dozen streamed movies/episodic TV shows that have been released over the past few years with wonderfully strong contrast that disprove Tomasso’s contention that HDR is...

From Netflix Tech Blog: We are excited to announce that we are now streaming HDR10+ content on our service for AV1-enabled devices, enhancing the viewing experience for certified HDR10+ devices, which previously only received HDR10 content. To enhance our offering, we have been adding HDR10+...

I had a look at the white paper. It says ARRI LOGC4 is able to encode over 11 stops of dynamic range above middle gray, yet the Alexa 35 is only capable of capturing 9 stops above middle gray, well below the 10.25 stops of ACES CCT. Accordingly, there should be no clipping of highlights. Pines...

I’m afraid you’re mistaken. The screen grab shows the color spaces he compared, and DWG is not one of them.

Dado said highlights will clip when handling footage from high dynamic range cameras. I shared a screen shot from part 1 of Dado’s presentation. In that section, he says nothing about increasing the dynamic range capability of the color space in order to accommodate raising middle gray to 400...

In Dado Valentic's presentation of Josh Pines' JPLOG2, he claims that using ACES CCT, highlights are clipped in DaVinci Resolve when grading footage shot with high dynamic range cameras like the Alexa 35. I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around that, since the Alexa's 'only' got 9 stops of...

That was worthwhile. “Ever since liftgammagain got hijacked by that lunatic, psychopath guy who sells calibration software, most smart people that know anything about color science or color have been out of it, nobody really wants to even write anything, because there's always somebody trying...

James Kersley-Cregeen, Production Technologist, Netflix, just made the exact same point about the importance of establishing the look in ACES (and in HDR) prior to post: “I have one anecdote coming from another colorist who said they spent, it was a two-day HDR grade and then they had half a...

31.5-inch 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) QD-OLED panel with 240 Hz refresh rate and 0.1 ms (GTG) response time for smooth rendering 1000 nits peak brightness with VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 400 for exceptional color contrast True 10-bit color depth and Quantum Dot technology provide 100% sRGB, 99% DCI-P3...

Then it’s got nothing to do with the thread’s topic, since ads are neither movies nor HDR.

what do you mean by commercial realm?

No, it’s not. The colorist isn’t some rogue actor who does whatever they like. Their job is to bring the creative vision of filmmakers to life. It’s a collaborative undertaking. Anyhow, you say you agree with me, but we don’t agree at all. I never said anything about the colorist being the sole...

override who?

Good for you, but that does not make Tomasso’s claims any more valid. I’m not here as an HDR evangelist, but to clear up misconceptions. HDR actually enhances contrast & color depth and flat gray visuals stem from improper lighting or grading, not from the format. As Steve Yedlin’s correctly...

“Two months after post giant Company 3 was sold to VFX house Framestore, holding company Streamland Media — the parent of leading audio post facility Formosa Group as well as such companies as Picture Shop and Picture Head — revealed its intent Jan. 14 to acquire Technicolor’s post business for...

I call bs on Tomasso for blaming HDR for the current “grey, sludgy aesthetic”.