Hi guys,

I’m starting to look into HDR, because it seems to be all the rage now and some of the scans we have are done at such quality that the projects could definitely benefit from an HDR workflow and release. HDR is still quite new on the consumer market, so I’m not saying we’ll start seeing HDR preservations tomorrow but it would be good to be ready when the time for it comes, and also keep it in mind for possibly future-proofing projects.

I tried reading up on it but to be honest, I find the whole thing quite confusing - does anyone have any experience or insight they could share?

What tools and formats can be currently used to produce HDR renders and encodes that would fit the new home video HDR standards?

And is it possible to convert SDR footage to HDR - I realize that there would probably be little benefit to doing this to an entire project but it may be important in cases where we might need to patch things up with SDR footage, like restoring missing frames using a BD release.