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Ridiculous. Like when James Cameron promoted Avatar HDR with an SDR YouTube video, while YT is perfectly capable of HDR playback.

• babypuncher 3y ago
  At least as of a couple of years ago, HDR support on YouTube has been pretty bad[1]. I know they've been working to improve things since, but I kind of don't blame people for walking away from that mess. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwDWQyBF9II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwDWQyBF9II
  • rado 3y ago
    Thanks, will check out LTT's gripes, but I've been watching the following HDR channels forever and they look great: https://www.youtube.com/@SeoulWalker https://www.youtube.com/@SeoulWalker https://www.youtube.com/@Rambalac https://www.youtube.com/@Rambalac https://www.youtube.com/@Relaxing.Scenes.Driving https://www.youtube.com/@Relaxing.Scenes.Driving
    • m4rtink 3y ago
      Can´t recommend Rambalac enough - I have pretty much re-traced his steps multiple times during our Japan trip a couple times & it really helped with orientation. :) Also some of the walks are really interesting & really gives you the context of various places in Japan. :)
    • eurekin 3y ago
      The real issue is it's either HDR or good SDR, but not both at the same time
    • dansky 3y ago
      I'm also glad that Rambalac is back as he quit a few months ago. I've recently also started uploading 4K60 HDR content to YouTube [1] and it takes up to one week more time for them to encode than the SDR version. You can include your own LUT instead of YouTube conversion which seems to help. Here's an article and LUT [2] + a video [3] with valuable info. They allowed me getting DJI Pocket 3 HLG recordings to HDR10. [1] https://youtu.be/0S8hw8Lrvlk https://youtu.be/0S8hw8Lrvlk [2] https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr [3] https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE
  • jiggawatts 3y ago
    It’s still bad. Even as a totally amateur videographer making short clips of my holidays, YouTube is not good enough. HDR processing takes months! The SDR down conversion is “potato quality” even to my non-expert eyes, let alone a Hollywood colourist. Etc…
    • dansky 3y ago
      Instead of YouTube's HDR->SDR conversion you are free to use your own conversion LUT with mkvmerge. As I posted above, here are some links for info: - Workflow and a valuable LUT: https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr https://www.wesleyknapp.com/blog/hdr - Some DaVinci Resolve Settings to use on SDR monitors: https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE https://youtu.be/4izJfgRtkZE (though I upload 4K60 HDR at 37.5Mbit) which is enough for me slow content.
      • jiggawatts 3y ago
        This only allows a single LUT for the entire video. For comparison, Resolve will perform Dolby Vision tone mapping from HDR to SDR on a clip-by-clip basis.
  • rado 3y ago
    HLG still not good enough?