Chris Chinnock

That is the question – on many people’s minds at the SMPTE Conference. There is a clear diversity of opinions about the use of metadata in live broadcast and file-based workflows. Dolby says they …

Content is mastered in a dim environment and reproduced on a display whose performance is measured in a dark environment. But a lot of content is watched in environments that are not dark or …

Keith Slavin of ISO Video presented a method for automated tone mapping of unsaturated HDR content down to an SDR range and BT.709 color gamut for distribution as an SDR signal. By using the …

Shane Mario Ruggieri, a Production Engineer, Producer and Colorist at Dolby Laboratories presented a paper titled, “Breaking out of the 100-­nit Box – A Colorist’s View of HDR Grading.” In the talk, he explained …

In a paper presented by Peter Postma and a team from FilmLight, Postma started by noting that colorists first spend a lot of time color matching content from different cameras before creating the HDR …

Several papers at the SMPTE conference were aimed at colorists working on the grading of HDR and WCG content. This is still a new area and most colorists have not yet tried to grade …

The opposite problem to gamut compression is gamut extension, which was discussed by Syed Waqas Zamir of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. Here, the idea is to take the source content gamut delivered …