hello my friends in today's really cool video we're gonna talk about how to do
proper setup to color grade in hdr
now before we start we're going to require two things in order for you to actually successfully
color grade in hdr one thing is the declin card and the reason why you need decline card
is to properly output clean signal if you want to find out more information about it i'm gonna place
link right now right above so you can go ahead and watch my dedicated video the second thing we're
gonna need is actually a proper reference display that supports hdr so it cannot be emulation
it cannot be one of those lower tier the 300 400 600 whatever knits very cheap tvs that
don't really deliver that number it's got to be higher end monitor or tv that actually can
handle it so the first thing i want to do i want to change resolution of my project
to 4k or uhd depending on whatever you're working with okay so let's click like that and click save
and we can see nothing really going on everything is the same but now we have
basically 4k environment so let's go back to the settings again and now i'm going to go to
the color management and in the color management we're going to do a few adjustments in order to
properly set up our project let's go to the color science and we're going to change default color
science to davinci yrgb color managed okay i'm going to click over here and now we have
selection where we can choose resolve color management preset if you don't want to use
preset and you're more advanced and you know maybe something i don't go to the custom settings
and dial your own things however in this case we have two presets that perfect match for us
hdr p3 broadcast and hdr rec 2020 now depending on your monitor whether your monitor supports
p3 color space or like in my case my monitor supports 95 percent of rec 2020 so i'm gonna
be color grading and demonstrating for rec 2020 so i'm going to click that and we halfway done
so now what we're gonna do now i'm gonna select output color space and in the output
color space i'm gonna go down and i'm gonna select rec 2020 st 2084 st 2084
is pq gamma so we're going to be working with rect 2020 pq 1000 nits again this is very important
be sure not to jump ahead more than what your monitor can handle my monitor can handle 1300
nits so color grading 4 000 nits is the perfect sweet spot for me so now what i'm going to do
i'm going to select right over here hdr mastering for 1 000 nits okay perfect
now since i'm going to be color grading for dolby vision i'm going to select enable dolby vision
just like this dolby vision version we're going to leave 4.0 and mastering display we're going gonna
do 1000 nit bt 2020 d65 which stands for the white point pq full okay and now we're going to click
save and something happened but not quite exactly now another thing it's very important i want to
demonstrate to you is how to set up scopes by default you're probably going to have normal
setup just like this however now we're going to need to set up our scopes specifically for hdr
and thankfully in davinci resolve 17 we have that option so if we're going to click three
little dots over here and select waveform scale style we can go all the way down to hdr st 2084
aka pq hlg okay so we're gonna click over here and now we have hdr scopes and i'm gonna come back
to that in one second so let me move this work really quick so now we're almost there however
it's very important do not rely on the gui image so graphic user interface over here once you got
the setup completely for hdr this picture over here is no longer going to be accurate and i'm
going to show it to you in one second so let's go back to our settings and this time let's go again
back to the master settings and now on the master settings i'm gonna select for my reference monitor
i'm gonna select uhd 2160 so we're gonna match our timeline resolution
data levels i'm gonna set to full video bit depth i'm going to scale to 12 bit and i'm
going to enable hdr metadata over hdmi because my reference monitor my asus pro art is hdmi monitor
if you guys want to learn more about davinci resolve check out my in-depth insider knowledge
tutorial it's specifically oriented for people who just starting to work with davinci resolve
all the way to intermediate users and i'm basically covering the entire
workflow with davinci resolve from very basic introduction all the way to delivery how to edit
how to do sound editing how to do color grading and final delivery it's a really nice course
check it out i'll put links in the description below so now we have everything set up over here
and let's click save and nothing really happens to this image however on the reference monitor now we
have a proper image unfortunately i can i cannot record this reference monitor because i only
have the output card i don't know i don't have recording card to show you difference however i'm
gonna put side by side what you see here this clip and what proper hdr look like compared to this
okay so now what i'm going to do now i'm going to really quick put my hdr blackmagic cloth on it
origami hdr black magic and i'm gonna do something like this one okay and if i'm gonna go
before and after over here we can see a very little difference however the difference is pretty
significant on hdr monitor so let me do copy and paste something over here and again we can see
really really significant difference now let's try to do with the red camera so again i'm gonna put
a lot on the red camera and we can see how it looks in the gui compared to what it looks like
with hdr and you probably should have hdr monitor in order to correctly see this video otherwise
it may not appear correct but hopefully youtube will do the justice and show it to you accurately
okay so let's do same thing over here okay and let's do a little adjustments
let's add a little bit information in the shadows and let's drop a little bit of highlights
now i promised i'm gonna come back to scope so let me get this clip over here let me copy the
lot from the previous clip and let me show it to you what looks like on the scopes because we're
color grading for 1000 nits watch what's going to happen if i'm going to try to go above it we can't
because our project is basically limiting to go above it and once you go above it everything just
blows up and doesn't look correctly so this is how you set up your project to work for hdr if you're
interested in hdr workflow i have a fantastic premium tutorial coming up on my origami color
website it's going to be available in about a week i'm going to put a link in the description below
thank you guys for watching be sure to subscribe and i'll see you in the next video take care