So I did play around a bit last night with SDR to HDR color grading. I don’t have my pc plugged into my tv but I deployed my tenders to my iPhone X. In order to properly view the footage, my iPhone has to be at max brightness, and it’s still a little dark. Which is weird cause I can watch Dolby Vision movies on iTunes and be at a third brightness for the colors to pop a little.

This sucks cause I don’t want to blow out the highlights.

I did find someone who has an HDR grading lut for rec709 monitors however he took the tools he made offline as he makes adjustments to them. I also tried other software to view the hdr footage on my PC and they are all just too dark, even with my UHD rips.

I’m going to the new city that I’m moving to tonight to look for apartments. Won’t be back till tomorrow evening. So I’ll have to work on this on Sunday. I might just take my pc out into my living room and plug it into the tv to really get my color grading workflow down.