The quest for HDR

[profezzorn]

HDR experiment #1

This video was taken with the HLG2 setting on my camera.
The light saber still completely wipes out any color information and is generally rendered as white, even in the HDR video. Next time I will be trying the HLG3 setting.

First I uploaded the video without any LUTs:

HDR testing without LUT

Then I uploaded it with the LUT from the program in the top post:

HDR testing with non-graded LUT

Then I created a lut where SDR max is equal to the HLG 50% code point:

HDR test with 50% of HLG LUT

Finally I created a LUT with SDR max is equal to the HLG 60% code point, and I made it so that it clips without changing colors.

HDR testing with color-preserving LUT

Note, if you are watching this in HDR mode, then all the videos will look the same. Only the SDR (standard dynamic range) render is different between these movies.

I think I need to experiment a bit more with the clipping functions though, because color-preserving clip basically removes all highlights in the picture.