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Post #1351757

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44rh1n
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Info: Guide for Working with 4K HDR Blu-ray Rips in SDR
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Date created
3-Jun-2020, 4:18 PM

Harmy said:

Yeah. I converted it to ProRes and I’m getting the same artifacts there. Though I did the conversion in Adobe Media Encoder, so that might be the problem.

Alright Harmy! I think I’ve figred it out! My ProRes 4444 sample conversion just finished, so I threw it into Resolve and it looks great! No artifacts anymore (at least, nowhere near the same as the previous stills). My suspicion is that MPV with its on-the-fly tonemapping, as well as Media Encoder, aren’t processing it in the highest quality possible. Because the slow ProRes 4444 conversion done in FFmpeg looks amazing.

  1. Flat HDR

  1. Tonemapping Applied

  1. Tonemapping & 200% Saturation

  1. Quick Custom Grade

Or here is a link to the images as TIFFs, instead of the compressed JPG versions above.

As far as creating the ProRes file in FFmpeg goes, here are the settings I used: