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by Chris Chinnock
Reference monitor maker Flanders Scientific used the SMPTE conference to showcase some new capabilities for its LUT box called BoxIO. LUTs are used to create calibrated “looks” that can transform content from a proprietary …
Tags:Display Calibration| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 43
by Chris Chinnock
At the SMPTE 2016 exhibition in Hollywood, the Teledyne LeCroy exhibit featured a preview of the forthcoming HDR Test Option “HDR Lab” for the 980 test platform. Aimed at HDR device manufacturers and post-production, …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Test Equipment| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
That seems to be what some people at the SMPTE conference are proposing (see related article: ISO Video Proposes SDR+ Production Method). In another spin on the idea, Joe Kane and Florian Friedrich want …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
Last year, Barco presented a contrast model for the cinema that predicted real contrast values taking into account the projector, screen, and environment. They concluded that one starts to see diminishing returns in creating …
Tags:Cinema| Contrast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43
by 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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
Sony and Dolby both showed HDR comparison demos at the SMPTE conference. For example, Sony showed two new OLED professional monitors as well as a new HDR format converter box, all of which was …
Tags:Dolby| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43
by Chris Chinnock
Canon was highlighting their new DP-V2420 and DP-V1710 24” and 17” HDR mastering monitors at the SMPTE conference. We have reported on them before (New Canon Projector and Broadcast Monitors Support HDR), but Canon …
Tags:Canon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
RealD has turned to signal processing techniques to create a novel way of processing frames of video. Called a synthetic shutter, the technique can be used with high frame rate capture and a shutter …
Tags:Cameras| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43
by Chris Chinnock
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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
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 …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
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