MichaelTiemann

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  1. This January I made the commitment to really delve into HDR grading, and I purchased an FSI XM-310K monitor.  I was wondering how I was going to find the time to really focus on this brave new world, and then shortly thereafter, I found myself in quarantine.  With lots of time.

    I returned to my music studio to create some new content that would be fun to grade in HDR, and I composed and performed this experimental music on my Buchla modular analog synthesizer.  It's been getting good reviews within the Buchla community, but I'm interested to hear your feedback on the grade--if you have an HDR monitor on which to review it.  And also your thoughts on how well the SDR version holds up to scrutiny.

     

  2. The DM-240 really shines when it comes to using all it's built-in tools.  The LCD panel technology does have a certain amount of black bleed, which is why it's important to have a bias light behind it.  It is not OLED (which gives virtually pureblacks) not is it light-modulated (like XM-310K zones or XM-311K pixels). But it is great at what it does.

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  3. My plans for 2020 included getting serious about HDR grading.  I've been shooting on RED cameras since 2014 and I've wanted to produce HDR since YouTube enabled it in late 2016.  But there were many obstacles.

    No more.  I bought an FSI XM-310K, which I pair with my DM-240 for DolbyVision style side-by-side HDR/SDR grading.  To answer your questions:

    General questions

    Have you graded HDR? Yes.

    How often? Every chance I get.

    What type of content are you working on?  Creative music projects recorded at Manifold Recording.

    Who for? (broadcaster, on demand streaming service etc) Music studio clients and myself.

    Workflow questions

    Are you grading HDR first or SDR first?  Last year it was SDR first, and checking HDR on consumer-grade OLED.  This year (and hereafter) HDR first with SDR for all HDR deliverables.

    Are you using a Dolby Vision workflow?  Yes.

    If you're not using a Dolby Vision workflow are you doing a manual trim or using some automatic tone mapping?  I am using DolbyVision AND doing manual trims.

    How much time are you given for the creation of your secondary delivery format ie 1 day for a SDR trim pass?  I do SDR checks as I review HDR renders. By the time I'm finished with HDR for delivery, SDR is just playing the HDR deliverables with it's corresponding SDR LUT.

    Do you grade only in PQ ( even without a dolby vision workflow) or do you work in HLG?  PQ only.

    What grading software are you using?  DaVinci Resolve.  I recently posted to their Feature Request forum my ideas for how to work best in 16.2.2 and am trying to open a discussion about what will make it better for the future.

    On what platform is the final online being carried out on ie Avid, Premiere Pro, Flame etc?  DaVinci Resolve.

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    I posted this in the Resolve BMD forum, but it's been buried by hundreds of posts about stabiilty, performance, and other stuff.  I'm hoping that within this community, the topic of HDR-friendly workflows is closer to top-of-mind.

    I'm trying to figure out the most idiomatic--but not idiotically difficult--way to export a still from a project so that its very easy for me to post or email the image to folks who will look at it on their phone or desktop PC. I can tell you that the REC 2100 PQ stills I'm exporting are absolutely NOT sharing friendly out of the box.

    I can think of many ways to do this, all of which are disruptive to the current state of my project.

    Surely there is a straightforward way to do this that doesn't involve all manner of manual triage.  Right now I'm getting best results by using my camera phone (?) in manual mode to take a picture of my FSI XM-310K monitor displaying the image with a D65 whitepoint.  There must be a better way!

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