How to turn RAW photos into HDR video

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Find all the links and more info here: www.matjoez.com/2023/01/10/how-to-turn-raw-photos-into-hdr-video/

[@gregbenzphotography]

Thank you for sharing this! Where are you posting your HDR videos? I’m only seeing SDR.

[@DmitryDyugaev]

Thanks Matt, I recently got myself a new macbook 14 M1 Pro with HDR display and will play with HDR video. Question is how to create universal video file that looks good on not HDR display?

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Platforms like youtube will apply a tone mapping effect to transcode your HDR back to SDR, however this isn't always ideal. More videos to come!

[@fabienb]

Right on time! Just captured the beautiful sunrise this morning in front of the O2 and I happen to have all that's required, so... ;) Thanks Matt!

[@LERAKO]

Such a good breakdown on this process !! THANK YOU!

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Glad it was helpful!

[@joyoffilming9500]

Awesome instruction. Exactly what I was looking for. Only after a few minutes I could turn a short test photo sequence of 200 pics into a stunning timelapse in HDR/HLG. The only tools I used were Lightroom Classic and Davinci Resolve Studio which has a great deflicker function bult-i. The secret is to export from RAW to 16-Bit Tiffs with LR and do the rest in DR.

[@FalaahNasser]

Exactly the video I have been waiting for. Thanks a lot Matt. Hopefully you can follow this with another tutorial on how to do it in Premiere Pro.

[@ShinilPayamal]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial.

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paul_mckelvie]

Super in-depth Matt, very nicely explained 🙌📷🖥️

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Glad you liked it!

[@Coatsey007]

Matthew, I've recently been watching your videos and would like to thank you. You asked for a question, here goes, I create family videos and I stay in a HDR workflow because I have the right monitor, but what I don't do and don't understand is what the HDR mode does for each of the nodes.

[@joyoffilming9500]

Good question! I also do not understand what it is doing. In my understanding, the timeline color space much determines the behavior of the wheels. But, there might be another secret under the hood of DR - you never know!

[@josh_boak]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR!

[@MatthewVandeputte]

This makes me very happy to read! I think you'll find lots of value in the upcoming chapter, but for now hopefully this does the trick

[@josh_boak]

@@MatthewVandeputte You're awesome man, never stop creating!

[@MajesticFlights]

Excellent video Matt! I develop lot of HDR content primarily using FCPX…Premiere works but is very buggy the process and I don’t like the quality as much. I’ll have to try Davinci using your approach but I get really great results using FCPX. KZbin also accepts these files really well and I personally prefer PQ transfer function.

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, would love to hear about your experience with fcp. I've done lots of testing and found the workflow with davinci much more optimised. All Adobe apps are terrible with hdr currently haha

[@MajesticFlights]

@@MatthewVandeputte looking forward to catching up Matt 👍

[@RossMcLendon]

Thanks Matthew, this is really informative!

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Glad it was helpful!

[@OzoneVibe]

Loving that you are loving Davinci Resolve. Looking forward to future videos centred on this. 👍 Ditto re can't use Lumix RAW directly. Annoying.

[@MatthewVandeputte]

I have many more videos planned with Resolve! Are you using the free or paid version?

[@OzoneVibe]

​@@MatthewVandeputte Studio. . Have you considered using Adobe DNG Converter for Lumix RAW? It does batch conversion really well ... but my knowledge isn't adequate to know if I'm losing anything. (Albeit when running LRT I notice Task Manager is showing it to be extensively using DNG Converter ... so I may have answered my own concern.)

[@MatthewVandeputte]

I have tried and sadly even the converted files do not show properly in DaVinci. There's a reason I started all this research so long ago and still haven't finalised it haha, but we're getting very close!

[@OzoneVibe]

@@MatthewVandeputte I'm curious. In what way did you feel they don't show correctly?

[@GiuseppeCammino]

Stunning video.

[@Heliosvector]

So you dont need LRTimelapse pro? just the regular licence?

[@aerowsbhx]

Why your video is not HDR? Could you please advise the link to your HDR video? Thanks.

[@itaco8066]

Super awesome 🎉

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Thanks 🤗

[@MajesticFlights]

One problem though with posting on YT in HDR is it automatically converts and renders an SDR file for those people watching using SDR displays…and the conversion isn’t always accurate. However shouldn’t matter as most people have HDR phones and televisions now.

[@ubassman]

Matt, you are the man! My head is spinning. Do you think you could produce the video file using FCPX rather then Davinci?

[@MatthewVandeputte]

I've extensively tested all software on my computer and by far davinci has the best and most consistent results. I am covering fcpx/apple workflows in the upcoming chapter though, but I need to check my scripts to see where I'm at with fcp specifically

[@allstarbury]

I am looking for correct setting HDR vidoeo HLG bt 709 not overexposed bt 2020 like from iphone for youtube videos. Lets say i have video redored by phone not dolby v not hdr10+ just basic hlg .

[@ronolthof6116]

Hi Matthew, Thanks for the very detailed info. I'm curious about the part where you say that the HDR brightness levels can't be seen properly on a non-HDR monitor. Does this only refer to the intermediate stages while you're processing the files? Or do you also mean the finished video? If it's including the finished video doesn't that imply that the HDR qualities of the finished video won't be able to be appreciated by the majority of home based viewers? And even worse than that, do viewers with a standard monitor see a lower quality video than they would if you didn't produce an HDR video? This would suggest that you are disadvantaging the majority of your potential home based audience. I realise however that an HDR video would be better suited to a public screening where higher quality projection equipment may be available. Does this then suggest that you would ideally produce two finished videos: one with standard dynamic range for online distribution and one with HDR for public screenings? Thanks.

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Hi Ron, you are on the money! This is all covered in the upcoming course chapter but yes indeed, certain HDR standards are not properly visible on non HDR screens. There is a standard which has the SDR signal kind of embedded in it, making it backwards compatible, however that comes with limitations. Looking at the great feedback and appreciation for this video and topic I intend to explore it in future free videos too, on this channel.

[@magnumopus4760]

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[@3zoozmoo]

It's simple..convert your RAW files to DNG with Adobe Converter, after that you can use your raw images directly on DaVinci Resolve..and you will be amazed by the smoothness of DaVinci deFlicker.

[@3zoozmoo]

If your hardware is powerful, you'll drop out of the old workflow more quickly

[@MatthewVandeputte]

Nope, Lumix DNG files don't work in DaVinci :) If it were simple I wouldn't have spent so much time on all this