Exporting HDR - Premiere Pro Tutorial

- Not all codecs support HDR, so if you want to export HDR video, you will have to use a codec that supports it. I'll go through how to export using H264 and H265. If you are exporting HDR, please note that the whole work flow should be HDR including any kind of color correction that you perform on the clips. Please go ahead and open the sequence name 2.3HDR, so from Sequences, Chapter 2, 2.3HDR, double click it and it opens in the timeline. So this is an HDR clip and I am going to export it as HDR. Let's go ahead and use the shortcut control M, command M on the Mac. Now, let's go ahead and change the format to an H264 and we already saw most of these settings, so I'm just going to go directly to the color profiles and the levels, so in the color profile I'm going to deselect this and I'm going to select high 10. I'm going to select the check box for Rec 2020 color primaries. This is the color space and look at the pop-up. It simply says that if you want to make this available to change the profile to high 10, which of course we already did. High dynamic range, that's exactly what we want and of course we want to include HDR 10 metadata. Now, the high 10 refers to 10 bit, so so far we've been working with eight bits per channel. This is going to increase that to 10 bits, so a wider color space that will support the extra shades that we are going to be using and HDR 10 is the current industry standard for high dynamic range in consumer televisions. Here in 2020 color primaries, this was created almost as a futuristic color space, so it supports shades that are way past what most even HDR systems can display right now and it leaves all of that head room so that in the future we can add that technology, and the HDR metadata is simply using this metadata to talk to the devices that would actually be displaying this. In here we have the P3D65 with a minimum luminance and a maximum luminance and we also have the content light levels with a maximum luminance, or light levels, right, and then an average. These are settings that we can definitely change. Now let's changes this color primary. Rec 709 is what Premier Pro and most cameras work with, so if you're not shooting logarithmic, chances are that you're shooting Rec 709. Now, we have chosen here by default, the P3D65 because it is the standard, but notice that we can also choose the Rec 2020. Now, everything inside of P3D65 is included inside of Rec 2020, so unless you have something that was shot, processed, and will be displayed in something that has the wide color space of the Rec 2020, then it's okay if you just choose P3D65 because that's what most monitors or displays will be showing, so everything inside of P3D65 is contained inside of Rec 2020. Let's go ahead and change this to H265, and in here again, let's just go through the profile. Let's choose the main 10, and again this makes available the Rec 2020, high dynamic range, and we can also include the HDR 10 metadata and it's the same thing as before. Notice that you can change the luminance minimum and maximum and also you can change the content light levels, the maximum and the average, and of course, in this dropdown you see exactly the same settings that we saw before, Rec 709, P3D65, and Rec 2020.