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HDR's 'bigger box' of brightness and color invites us to reconsider our creative approach to the images we carefully craft, and it takes more than just a good creative vision for how to use HDR to successfully master the medium, and to confidently shoot for and master in HDR.
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In the 2 hour course, I'll walk you through what's changed with HDR and how you can creatively take advantage of all that HDR has to offer.

The special topic videos seek to answer questions and explain elements of HDR, dive deeper on creative and technical topics, review hardware & software involved in shooting and grading, and to showcase what is possible within the medium.

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From Scene to Screen: The HDR Image Pipeline

An Introduction to the Creative Use of HDR

Have you ever wondered about where to get started with HDR Video? What is it anyway? This course will get you started!

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Adobe CC 2022 HDR Updates

October 2021 Release

What's changed or improved with HDR in the Adobe Creative Suite?

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Hands & Eyes on the SmallHD Vision 17

Is the new Vision 17 monitor from SmallHD good? Here's my hands-on review!

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The Ultimate iPhone 13 / 13 Pro Shooting Guide

A shooting guide for capturing the best Photos, SDR Video and HDR Video on the iPhone 13 / 13 Pro

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Can I Shoot the Milky Way on the iPhone 13 Pro?

How far can we push the lowlight and dynamic range of the iPhone 13 Pro?

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How to Read Exposure Tools in HDR

How do you read video scopes like the waveform monitor, histogram, false color tools, and zebras when filming in camera log and HDR?

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Monitoring HDR On Set & On Location

How to set up and monitor HDR & SDR using HDR displays during production, on set, and on location. DIT Cinematographer

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Are Your Video Files Your Image?

Image vs. Data

What's the difference between the image you see on the screen and the data that's stored in your image files?

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What Makes a Display "HDR?"

What's the difference between an HDR display and a normal display?

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How to Export HDR from Adobe Creative Cloud

Demoed Using CC 2021

How do you export HDR content from Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects?

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Building an HDR Streaming Platform

What does it take to get HDR Video delivered to as many platforms that support it as possible?

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11 Questions & Answers About HDR

Q&A #1

Answering a few common questions about HDR with simple answers.

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How to Encode Dolby Vision on the iPhone 12

How to use iMovie on the iPhone 12 & 13 to export Dolby Vision HDR

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Does HDR Look Better Than SDR?

Does HDR really look better than SDR? Seeing is believing.

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The HDR Transfer Matrix / Transfer Coefficients Problem

One of the hardest issues to diagnose in HDR is color shifting caused by using the wrong transfer matrix. What does that mean, and how do you fix it?

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The Three Things You Need to Work in HDR

What do you need to get started in working HDR?

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Who is Samuel Bilodeau?

Who is Samuel Bilodeau? And what does he know about HDR Video?

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HDR Tools in DaVinci Resolve Studio 17

Demoed using Version 17.0

What's new tools are there in DaVinci Resolve 17 that can help with HDR?

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Intermediate HDR Reference Displays

Q1 2021

How do the Apple ProDisplay XDR, SmallHD OLED 22, and Atomos Neon 24 compare with the Sony BVM-X300 and the FSI XM310K?

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HDR Grading on the SmallHD OLED 22

How does the SmallHD OLED 22 compare to more expensive studio HDR displays for grading?

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HDR Monitoring on the Atomos Neon 24

How is the HDR image on the Atomos Neon 24?

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Budget HDR Monitoring with the BMD UltraStudio Monitor 3G

What's the cheapest way to get HDR out of your computer to a reference display?

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HDR Grading with the LG CX OLED

How do you set up and use the LG CX OLED for HDR grading? And is it any good?

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Working in HDR in After Effects CC

Demoed using CC 2020 Q4 Release

What do you need to know to get started working in After Effects in HDR?

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Working in HDR in Adobe Premiere Pro

Version CC 2020 (Q4 2020)

How do you work in Adobe Premiere Pro in HDR? I'll walk you through some of its quirks in this demo, using Premiere Pro CC 2020.

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Setting up Adobe Creative Cloud in HDR

CC Version 2020, Q4 2020 Release

How do you turn on and monitor in HDR in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects (CC 2020 and above)?

Dolby Vision HDR on the iPhone 12

Initial Launch

How does Dolby Vision on the iPhone 12 work, and why would you want it?

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