speeddemon wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:49 pm
Do you/we have any idea why they're doing this?
Is it better to just watch in HDR instead of DV for movies with FEL expansion if a FEL compatible player isn't an option?
Would it be possible to re-write the L1/L2 metadata so it's corrected/"unexpanded"?
4 options:
1- just watch in HDR10
2- bake the EL into the BL
3- generate a proper RPU in resolve for the BL actual brightness.
4- get a proper player
Expanding the brightness makes sense actually. It futureproofs the grade for when the TV will be brighter and it makes the content accurate on more type(brightness, HDR format) of display.
Because this way, people with brighter DV TV(G3) can enjoy brighter HDR and people with low nits DV TV can also get an accurate picture thanks to the trim pass and L1.
Then, people with HDR10-only TVs (low nits) can also get an accurate image with the 1000nits BL. If the BL was as bright as the EL, then those low-nits HDR10 TVs would look bad/clipped.
danbez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:08 pm
On top of that, we also have titles where the Base Layer was poorly authored resulting in a lot of compression artifacts and other issues that are only fixed with the FEL layer. Typical examples are Total Recall, Halloween 2 and a few others.
That's right. I found a couple that improve grain/details:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =917134052