Post-production Workflows for HDR Broadcast and Streaming ADVANCED Course

Post-production Workflows for HDR Broadcast and Streaming ADVANCED Course Summary

Targeted Audience:
- Members in the broadcasting and streaming industrymanaging multiple HDR and SDR distribution formats

Outcomes: Participants will gain theoretical knowledge and use of practical tools to accelerate their HDR/SDR workflows for distribution, namely:
- Conversion between HDR distribution formats
- Integration of SDR content in HDR workflows
- Conversion of HDR sources to SDR for HD distribution channels
- Conversion of non-distribution formats (e.g. raw, log) to HDR

Pre-requisite: HDR Technology and Workflows for Media and Entertainment course, or strong understanding of HDR technology, its distribution formats and the HDR ecosystem

Outcomes:
1. HDR Fundamentals recap:
   a. EOTF/OETF/OOTF
   b. HDR and SDR distribution formats
   c. Technical differences between relative and absolute transfer functions
   d. Tone mapping and inverse tone mapping

2. Converting Colour Volumes - Fundamentals
   a. Transforms Vs. 3D LUTs
   b. The Adobe Premiere Pro Environment
   c. The DaVinci Resolve Environment

3. Converting distribution Colour Volumes
   a. HDR to HDR conversions
   b. SDR to HDR conversions
   c. HDR to SDR conversions

4. Non-distribution capture formats conversion to distribution formats
   a. Sony SLog
   b. Arri RAW
   c. Red RAW
   d. Canon CLog
   e. Panasonic VLog

5. Use cases - discussion around instructor and participant provided assets and challenges in their respective workflows

6. The display ecosystem:
   a. Technical differences between professional and CE HDR displays
   b. HDMI, DVB, UHD forum UHD/HDR roadmaps
   c. OLED,. QLED and micro-led manufacturer approaches
   d. Static and Dynamic Metadata, standards and CE support