This summer I worked on some nice projects at Infected.digital. My role was comp lead and I did the online on flame on all projects and additional comps in Nuke.
A full list of all the recent projects can be found here.
I think I can finish looking at this image for a while now. I finished part four of a series of blog post that I thought would fit into one post initially. But the deeper I peeked into the issues with this image, the longer it took to finish the articles. Here is an overview of all four articles.
Blender 3.2 is out and has a lot of new features. One of them is the color space override in the Scene/Output section. This was a good opportunity to test out a little scene that I have set up. So you could view the left image in Blender …
…but actually render out the right image. This is a stupid example, but it’s getting more interesting when rendering EXR files. Please read the Blender 3.2 render colorspace overrides for more information.
Plus a follow up article rendering a close-up of the same scene and taking a closer look at different display rendering transform (DRT) options:
One Scene – many images
I thought it was time to finally switch the WordPress theme of this site to the new default theme “Twenty Twenty-Two”. I find the overall look is a bit cleaner but I struggle still a lot with the new menu structure. I do not find it intuitive at all.
Also some effects in galleries of the CoBlocks Plugin failed and I needed to repair some older pages so that they look kind of okay again.
I also make some little changes to the subdomain landing page hdr.toodee.de.
It is very frustrating to explore HDR content on websites, beause with every new OS, browser or hardware update suddenly some feature unexpectedly work and other which worked before all over sudden stop working.
It is a moving target. And with Instagram introducing HDR content in Reels there is even more to learn and explore and again the feature is very unpredictable at the moment. I don’t find any official information about how, when and what works regarding HDR Reels.
I hope next week Apple’s WWDC will finally mention some of the HDR features for video and stills. Till today HDR media capability is still labelled an experimental feature in Safari.
Some days ago I got a message from my fellow HDR nerd friend Finn Jäger (REPLAYBOYS). He found an Instagram Reel that shows brighter contend as usual. This is the start on HDR content on Instagram?
After testing around a bit, I think Instagram supports only HLG encoded content at the moment. I tried PQ content as well, but I can watch it only as SDR content.
I uploaded some older HDR story content that I created again as a Reel and I can see the content bright on my display. It seems it takes a while to transcode the files and some people see still only the SDR content for a while. But then, the Reel sticks out, because the previous and next posts looks more dull.
I guess it is just a matter of time now, before all the Instagram content is going to be presented as bright as possible. Poor batteries 🙂
I finished the second blog post for the new section “Exploring HDR Displays“. When you can see a difference in the following two images, then please continue reading the new post “Wide Gamut and HDR”.
If not, then… also read it 🙂
Plus, the journey continues beyond Display P3, can I show Rec.2020?
Thanks to Alex Fry to create this HDR diagnostics page that show HDR images in a browser window. This page is only working in Google Chrome with a properly connected HDR display. I can view his page on a MBP with an XDR display.
Sadly WordPress does not support AVIF images at the moment, so I am not sure how to embed these kind of files in my blog.
macOS 12.3 Monterey brings Metal support to Blender and my 2020 iMac with AMD graphics and there is the first OCIO V2 config that I somehow get to run in Blender 3.2 Alpha.
Here is a small setup guide to run Blender and the new OCIO V2 pre-release config. As the names indicate, it’s all Alpha and Beta so expect issues and bugs.
I was offered to attend this commercial shoot in Prague by Infected.digital for Markenfilm Hamburg. The fantastic service production UNIT+SOFA made me feel safe during COVID times and it was an honor to be a part of the great crew on set. Special thanks to the director Benjamin Brettschneider and the DOP Mario Krause for me being part of the team.
Finally I am in the process to update the Flame – Speedcheck benchmark again. It has been a while. I was very happy to see that the benchmark is alive and kicking in the forums at forum.logik.tv.
So I got motivated to give the page a little update with more to follow soon I hope….
Here is a render of the old benchmark from 2018. I found out that there is a new version out there that was updated for flame 2020.2. This benchmark is now UHD@23.976 instead of the old one that was HD@25fps.
And here is already a second render with the latest archive I could find. I restored it into a fresh ACES project, set all the colorspace settings properly and added some gain overall on the top layer. This is a HDR version of this benchmark.
Happy new 2022! In my WordPress site I have several topics that I started in 2021 but I was not able to finish. I am looking forward to present them hopefully in the near future.
The new topics are not directly related to ACES, that’s why I created a new section called “Exploring HDR displays” on this WordPress site.
One article, at least a first part, I am able to present today. The blurry red star on a cyan background. Since I read the blog from Troy Sobotka I got fascinated with this image. The top image shows how it should look and the second image shows how it looks far too often when you try to recreate this image for yourself.
Dig in into “Understanding pixel values and the EOTF“.