Heya hedgesmfg, im extremely fascinated by your 4K HDR workflow. I’m working on a TROS fan edit myself and want to preserve 4K HDR as i believe its the best experience to watch it on my samsung tv at home.

My workflow has been for adding scenes to I would upscale fan editted scenes to 4K using Topaz Video Enhance, and then I would use Davinci resolve to add the HDR metadata in. Rec, gamma, being Rec2020, ST2084 (My “color grading” is the noob of noobs), but its the best I can do to “match” the original 4K. I would then do my video editing in final cut pro.

The issue I ran into is when I export from FCP, it has to be a 10 bit codec in order to export HDR, so the only codec available from FCP is ProRes 422. However the file size is humongous (>300-400GB), and the only way I can encode into HEVC/H.265 is to use either compressor app or handbrake, but that takes FOREVER. I was wondering if you could recommend a better easier workflow. Since you use adobe premiere pro, can that export directly to HEVC265 10 bit?

I’m working on encoding my first draft to release using handbrake.

You can check out some of the pics of my work on the thread: https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/the-rise-of-skywalker-my-personal-cut-wip/id/82513