1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,040 cameras lights fancy calibrated monitors 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:10,080 what is the point of any of this YouTube 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:13,440 has supported 4K High dynamic range or 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,160 HDR video for years and yet this 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:20,439 so-called next Pig thing is conspicuously absent from the content of 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,519 even the geekiest creators no offense 7 00:00:20,439 --> 00:00:28,760 sorry nothing personal I know you know it's true and I know this question has 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:30,480 been eating away at you why I mean many 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:36,480 of you are carrying an HD R display around in your pocket surely you'd like 10 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:40,360 to use it so is it laziness 11 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:42,360 incompetence both I don't know because 12 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:48,160 the problem actually isn't on the Creator side it's with YouTube the truth 13 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:52,399 is that getting that little HDR selector to show up that's the easy part 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:56,480 delivering a consistent viewing experience well that's extremely hard 15 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:02,079 right now because of platform limitations that have existed for years 16 00:00:58,879 --> 00:01:04,920 now and I say enough is 17 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:08,640 enough it's time for YouTube to stop half baking features that actually 18 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:13,159 Elevate the viewing experience and take these problems seriously you know what 19 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:17,840 else we take seriously Segways to our sponsors I fix it need a diverse tool 20 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:23,000 kit I fix it has just the right thing for you learn more about the Manta 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:27,840 toolkit and it's 112 steel bits with two 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,840 premium drivers at the end of the video 23 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:41,119 HDR hasn't proven to be the kind of tech buzzword that really drives people to 24 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:46,079 upgrade but when they finally experience it done well most do agree that it looks 25 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:50,200 more lifelike and immersive this is thanks to both its wider color gamut and 26 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:54,840 its ability to retain detail in both the brightest and the darkest portions of 27 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:59,880 the scene now HDR recording is all around us with popular devices boasting 28 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,719 the capability for years now but in inite of this most videos on YouTube are 29 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:09,560 uploaded in standard dynamic range or SDR which has a much narrower range of 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:14,760 colors to sample from and tends to look flat or more lifeless by comparison 31 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:20,319 obvious fix then right let's all just upload our videos in HDR so they'll be 32 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:23,120 more good well yeah we thought of that 33 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:26,800 obviously but every time we revisit this conversation internally we run into 34 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:31,480 YouTube platform problems that have made our efforts discouraging to say the 35 00:02:29,519 --> 00:02:35,360 least to fully understand them though we're going to need to dive into how HDR 36 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:39,840 content gets from the sets of your favorite shows to your ey holes by the 37 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:44,560 way if your eyeholes are starved for some more entertainment check out our Floatplane exclusive video on the 38 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:49,680 biggest data hoarders at LMG you won't want to miss it first of all not all 39 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:54,200 content benefits from HDR so lighting wardrobe and set design play a major 40 00:02:51,959 --> 00:02:59,080 part in the overall experience then there's your camera anything from your 41 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:06,560 iPhone to a cinema camera costing tens of thousands of dollars can capture HDR 42 00:03:02,239 --> 00:03:09,319 video but not all is created equal to 43 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:15,799 explain we need to actually Define the dynamic range part of high dynamic range 44 00:03:12,799 --> 00:03:18,480 for a camera sensor the dynamic range is 45 00:03:15,799 --> 00:03:24,000 the number of increments or stops that it's rated for each stop up is double 46 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:29,360 the amount of light and vice versa in a nutshell then the more stops the sensor 47 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:34,120 can see at a time the higher the dynamic range and top tier Cinema cameras can do 48 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:38,560 14 or more before they start to lose details in the darkest or the brightest 49 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:44,200 parts of a scene when it comes to the content that we consume however HDR also 50 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:48,480 comes with the expectation of a wider color gamut and well mastered HDR 51 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,720 content should take advantage of both of these elements not to end up with an 52 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:57,879 even worse version of the Vivid mode in a Best Buy showroom but to get a more 53 00:03:55,239 --> 00:04:03,079 natural appearance to achieve this a colorist will use specialized soft Ware 54 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:08,000 and an ungodly expensive HDR mastering display to fine-tune details in a video 55 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:12,040 like the texture of plants the lines on a person's face or the different shades 56 00:04:10,239 --> 00:04:15,959 of blue in the sky making them appear more true to life but we've got a 57 00:04:13,959 --> 00:04:20,120 problem the professional grade display that that colorist is working on is 58 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:25,639 undoubtedly much nicer than anything you'll own in the next probably 5 to 10 59 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:27,880 years so how do we translate what 60 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:32,199 they're working on to your experience at home well that's where all of these 61 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:37,840 competing HDR formats come in whether you're talking about hdr1 hdr10 plus DOL 62 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:42,280 be Vision hlg or any of the others all of them exist to solve the same 63 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:46,440 fundamental challenge of somehow delivering a consistent viewing 64 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:52,680 experience across displays that have vastly different capabilities thankfully 65 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:55,520 we do have a solution tone mapping 66 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:59,840 metadata metadata is best defined as data that accompanies other data 67 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:05,320 providing helpful information about it and oh you also want to know about tone 68 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:07,840 mapping ah now that is a way of 69 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:13,080 mathematically scaling the brightness and the color values of the content to 70 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:17,720 match your current display it's super cool and without it this shot from the 71 00:05:15,479 --> 00:05:23,160 HDR Channel looking toward the sun would turn into a massive stain of white light 72 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:29,080 on anything but a $30,000 reference monitor so then back to YouTube the SDR 73 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:32,960 content on the platform is also accompanied by all sorts of metadata 74 00:05:31,319 --> 00:05:38,639 this includes information about the video and audio codec the creation date 75 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:41,720 Etc what it doesn't include is any 76 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:43,880 brightness or color information SDR 77 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:47,880 devices expect this metadata to be encoded directly into the video file 78 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:52,520 well that would be a big problem if they clicked on an HDR upload where the 79 00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:57,960 metadata is stored separately from the video file while HDR video can be played 80 00:05:55,759 --> 00:06:02,560 back by an SDR device it's going to end up looking a little something like this 81 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:07,199 and given that the majority of viewers on YouTube are still likely watching on 82 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:11,199 an SDR device that would be an unacceptable 83 00:06:08,599 --> 00:06:16,759 compromise but don't worry they do have a better one it's called a l or a lookup 84 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:18,880 table Luts are essentially data files 85 00:06:16,759 --> 00:06:23,599 that are applied onto videos that transform the existing color values with 86 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:27,479 their own color grade for you Zoomers out there you could think of them kind 87 00:06:25,039 --> 00:06:32,199 of like Instagram filters they're not quite the same as tone mapping which 88 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,400 translates the entire color space but 89 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:39,400 YouTube's one siiz fits-all L application looks all right enough that 90 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:44,319 Joe average with his TN monitor isn't going to complain when they're watching 91 00:06:41,039 --> 00:06:47,639 your HDR video in its autogenerated 92 00:06:44,319 --> 00:06:50,000 SDR however because it's not tailored to 93 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:53,680 your exact video I can pretty much guarantee that the colors are not going 94 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:59,879 to come out the way that you intended yielding dull lifeless results and it's 95 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:03,080 bad enough that the HDR Channel actually includes a disclaimer in their video 96 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:07,280 descriptions warning that if their video looks pretty crap it's probably because 97 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:11,039 YouTube ruined it you know what doesn't look crappy are LTT beanie in seven 98 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:16,520 gorgeous colors available at LTT Store.com now you can upload your own L 99 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:21,199 file alongside the video with customized values but the process by which you go 100 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:25,879 about applying the L is convoluted at best involving stumbling across Google's 101 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:29,560 help page on uploading HDR videos which then directs you to a GitHub page where 102 00:07:27,919 --> 00:07:33,199 you download a tool and Fiddle around around with the command prompt in order 103 00:07:31,039 --> 00:07:37,840 to apply the custom Lu to your video even then the tool itself is Antiquated 104 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:42,400 as it was originally intended just to flag a video as HDR so that YouTube 105 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:48,000 would know what you were uploading since flagging content for HDR metadata wasn't 106 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,159 easy 6 years ago nowadays though 107 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:54,520 software like Premier Pro can export a video with the requisite HDR metadata 108 00:07:52,319 --> 00:08:00,080 that YouTube needs to identify the video as HDR it's just that YouTube isn't 109 00:07:57,199 --> 00:08:06,240 using all of the provided metad data like supposedly YouTube supports hdr10 110 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:11,240 plus which is great because it's an open standard for dynamic metadata which 111 00:08:08,759 --> 00:08:15,960 provides enough info for tone mapping on a scene by scene basis rather than just 112 00:08:14,039 --> 00:08:20,680 applying One Tone map for the entire video but neither we nor the gentleman 113 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:26,560 who runs the HDR Channel have been able to get the HDR 10 plus to work so we've 114 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:32,000 all given up on that the tool does however still give you an attempt at an 115 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:33,599 SDR conversion by embedding your own L 116 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:39,399 like separate from YouTube's standard one but this is with Dynamic metadata 117 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:42,640 limitations and the loss of detail for bright areas in a bright scene for 118 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:47,680 example another solution could be letting you upload both an SDR and an 119 00:08:45,279 --> 00:08:52,760 HDR grade of your video something that Prime video by contrast does give you 120 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:57,800 the option of doing but I can't exactly easily migrate my business to Prime 121 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,959 since in addition to obvious reasons 122 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:04,000 it's geared toward professional filmmaker ERS and Distributors and before you even begin to upload anything 123 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,760 you've got to jump through hoops like adding your bank account tax info and if 124 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:12,079 you read deep enough in the fine print probably a pledge to donate a kidney in 125 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:16,760 the event daddy Bezos needs it all of which means that I need YouTube to care 126 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:22,959 enough to make this process manageable for independent creators and and to know 127 00:09:19,839 --> 00:09:24,839 that they should care we know from our 128 00:09:22,959 --> 00:09:29,160 audience data that about half of our viewers are on mobile with roughly half 129 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:34,640 of those running Android 10 or newer which by Our rough napkin calculations 130 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:40,399 means that at least a third of you right now are on an HDR capable screen at 131 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:44,839 least on your phone even then there are some hiccups though on Android there's 132 00:09:42,839 --> 00:09:50,440 still no user brightness control alongside HDR so HDR videos will just 133 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:55,040 Blast Your Eyes with maximum brightness not that great at night and according to 134 00:09:52,839 --> 00:10:00,200 the most recent steam Hardware survey over 80% of you are running at 1080P or 135 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:05,000 less on your computers which are almost certainly not HDR and of the remaining 136 00:10:02,399 --> 00:10:10,320 20% very few will have shelled out for an HDR capable model with few were still 137 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:15,519 spending the thousand plus on a quality HDR display that will truly give you a 138 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:19,160 better viewing experience but the question there is why would you shell 139 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:24,120 out the extra it's not like your favorite content creators are uploading 140 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:26,200 an HDR or anything so I guess that's the 141 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:30,279 point of this video I just wanted you to know that it's not because I don't want 142 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:34,720 to and I wanted to finally get this out of my system because it might sound 143 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:40,320 harsh but YouTube has been kind of like a disappointing child for me lately I 144 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:43,800 can't control it all I can do is sit it 145 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:45,519 down and talk about how deep down it 146 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:51,279 knows it's capable of living up to its untapped potential but only if it 147 00:10:47,959 --> 00:10:53,320 applies itself you know so hopefully 148 00:10:51,279 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