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Conform HDR video to a standard dynamic range

Conform HDR video to a standard dynamic range

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Conform HDR video to a standard dynamic range

- HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. And it's the future on a lot of newer monitors and ultra high definition televisions that allows a broader range of brightness. You can have brighter brights and deeper, darker blacks on the screen. The issue is that we're gonna transitional period, where not all monitors support HDR, so you may find yourself in a position where you've created some HDR footage but you need to supply an output that is SDR or Standard Dynamic Range. Luckily, Media Encoder has a tool to do exactly that. Let me show you. We're here in Media Encoder, and I have one clip in the queue, and it's a street scene of New York that is shot in HDR. So we're gonna click on the export settings and you can see what that shot looks like. Some of this may not be easy to see on your screen because of the nature of looking at HDR footage but you can tell just by looking at the content that this is sort of a high contrast shot with a lot of detail. And it looks really good in HDR. So…

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