{"video_id":"fp_U2xDMiFVkM","title":"TQ: What the heck does the “Filmmaker Mode” button do?? ","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2019-10-04T17:43:19.517Z","duration_s":280,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.14,"text":"Remember when Beats headphones came out and they were marketed as the way music was meant to be heard?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.64,"end_s":12.5,"text":"Despite their older models having a reputation among audio files for just adding a ton of loose, muddy sounding bass?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.54,"end_s":17.94,"text":"Well, now there's a movement of foot in TVs that seeks to bring a more realistic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.34,"end_s":22.86,"text":"movie experience to your home, but that thankfully doesn't involve just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.1,"end_s":32.94,"text":"strapping subwoofers to the next display you buy. It's called film maker mode and it's been endorsed by big-name directors like Christopher Nolan, Ryan Johnson, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":33.34,"end_s":39.94,"text":"M Night Shyamalan Malayan, for better or for worse. And this is a big deal because perhaps counter-intuitively","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":40.26,"end_s":46.86,"text":"film maker mode isn't about adding some feature like a more advanced panel type or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":47.3,"end_s":53.18,"text":"special high dynamic range backlight. Instead, the general idea here is to prevent","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.5,"end_s":60.14,"text":"certain TV features from affecting the final image that you end up seeing. Kind of like addition by subtraction.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.14,"end_s":67.7,"text":"But how exactly does that work? Okay. So if you go by just about any new TV these days, you will see a plethora of features that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":67.94,"end_s":75.62,"text":"ostensibly make the image look better. Like motions moving, usually with some fancy-sounding name, noise reduction, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":76.02,"end_s":83.22,"text":"sharpening now with AI. However, there's a general consensus in the AV community that these image processing features","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":83.7,"end_s":90.9,"text":"actually make things look over-processed, artificial, and overall worse than the original in most cases. And","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.34,"end_s":95.98,"text":"even if you're not an AV expert, you can sometimes see this for yourself. Think about how","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":96.3,"end_s":100.48,"text":"overly smooth an actor's skin might look sometimes, or how","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":100.9,"end_s":103.54,"text":"interplated video often looks like the motion is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":104.34,"end_s":112.26,"text":"unnaturally smooth, like what you'd see if you watch a soap opera. So the idea behind film maker mode is to disable all these built-in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":112.9,"end_s":120.06,"text":"post-processing features and force the TV to show the original signal as it was intended to look by the film maker.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":120.06,"end_s":127.82,"text":"And I'm not talking just at the native frame rate and aspect ratio. This setting is also meant to combat the unrealistic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":128.38,"end_s":135.62,"text":"vivid and exaggerated color settings that TV manufacturers have resorted to to make their set look, you know,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":136.02,"end_s":140.82,"text":"brighter and more colorful than the one next to it in the display kiosk at a big-box store.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":140.82,"end_s":145.9,"text":"So it sets the white point at D65, which is a specific color temperature that's around","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":146.5,"end_s":154.62,"text":"6,500 Kelvin, similar to natural daylight, and doing this helps colors look more uniform across different TVs, whether the content is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":155.06,"end_s":163.86,"text":"SDR or HDR. And because most people don't bother changing the default picture settings on their TV after they take it out of the box and hook it up,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":163.94,"end_s":169.38,"text":"there's also a push to make this film maker mode as easy as possible to enable,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":169.86,"end_s":176.3,"text":"specifically with a single button on the remote control. Currently, Vizio, LG and Panasonic,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":176.58,"end_s":181.74,"text":"good job guys, are all on board with getting film maker mode into their upcoming TVs,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.74,"end_s":186.46,"text":"which should be hitting the market in 2020 at the latest, but hold on a second.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":186.46,"end_s":193.48,"text":"Is this kind of a tacit admission from the TV manufacturers that their own features that they've been pushing on us for years kind of suck?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":194.38,"end_s":198.22,"text":"Well, not necessarily.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":198.5,"end_s":204.98,"text":"Because some forms of post-processing can still be good for content other than cinematic films.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":205.42,"end_s":211.58,"text":"Motion smoothing, for example, can help you more easily track the trajectory of a ball during a sporting event.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":211.58,"end_s":214.98,"text":"It's just that it's not the right horse for every course.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":215.86,"end_s":220.94,"text":"And there's another problem here. Because film maker mode is going to be a single preset across","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":221.34,"end_s":224.78,"text":"many different models of TVs from many different manufacturers,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":225.02,"end_s":228.42,"text":"it actually may not yield the best results","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":228.94,"end_s":232.22,"text":"subjectively to the viewer's eye on every display.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.66,"end_s":238.42,"text":"While big-budget films are edited on professional mastering displays and while higher-end TVs can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":239.14,"end_s":242.94,"text":"approximate the same quality and would thus benefit the most from film maker mode,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":243.38,"end_s":251.74,"text":"content on lower-end TVs might still look a bit better with some of the post-processing features that film maker mode cuts out.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":252.14,"end_s":256.82,"text":"We encountered this recently in a review of a low-end monitor that we found that we kind of had to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":257.14,"end_s":263.3,"text":"crank the vibrancy up in order to get it to look good. Just don't tell James Cameron.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":263.54,"end_s":268.54,"text":"So thanks for watching guys, like, dislike, check out our other videos, leave a comment if you have a suggestion for a future","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":268.54,"end_s":277.54,"text":"fast as possible. Very few people actually do it. Come on! Give us some ideas! And don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on seeing your idea on the big screen.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":278.78,"end_s":280.78,"text":"Film maker mode.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Remember when Beats headphones came out and they were marketed as the way music was meant to be heard? Despite their older models having a reputation among audio files for just adding a ton of loose, muddy sounding bass? Well, now there's a movement of foot in TVs that seeks to bring a more realistic movie experience to your home, but that thankfully doesn't involve just strapping subwoofers to the next display you buy. It's called film maker mode and it's been endorsed by big-name directors like Christopher Nolan, Ryan Johnson, and M Night Shyamalan Malayan, for better or for worse. And this is a big deal because perhaps counter-intuitively film maker mode isn't about adding some feature like a more advanced panel type or special high dynamic range backlight. Instead, the general idea here is to prevent certain TV features from affecting the final image that you end up seeing. Kind of like addition by subtraction. But how exactly does that work? Okay. So if you go by just about any new TV these days, you will see a plethora of features that ostensibly make the image look better. Like motions moving, usually with some fancy-sounding name, noise reduction, and sharpening now with AI. However, there's a general consensus in the AV community that these image processing features actually make things look over-processed, artificial, and overall worse than the original in most cases. And even if you're not an AV expert, you can sometimes see this for yourself. Think about how overly smooth an actor's skin might look sometimes, or how interplated video often looks like the motion is unnaturally smooth, like what you'd see if you watch a soap opera. So the idea behind film maker mode is to disable all these built-in post-processing features and force the TV to show the original signal as it was intended to look by the film maker. And I'm not talking just at the native frame rate and aspect ratio. This setting is also meant to combat the unrealistic vivid and exaggerated color settings that TV manufacturers have resorted to to make their set look, you know, brighter and more colorful than the one next to it in the display kiosk at a big-box store. So it sets the white point at D65, which is a specific color temperature that's around 6,500 Kelvin, similar to natural daylight, and doing this helps colors look more uniform across different TVs, whether the content is SDR or HDR. And because most people don't bother changing the default picture settings on their TV after they take it out of the box and hook it up, there's also a push to make this film maker mode as easy as possible to enable, specifically with a single button on the remote control. Currently, Vizio, LG and Panasonic, good job guys, are all on board with getting film maker mode into their upcoming TVs, which should be hitting the market in 2020 at the latest, but hold on a second. Is this kind of a tacit admission from the TV manufacturers that their own features that they've been pushing on us for years kind of suck? Well, not necessarily. Because some forms of post-processing can still be good for content other than cinematic films. Motion smoothing, for example, can help you more easily track the trajectory of a ball during a sporting event. It's just that it's not the right horse for every course. And there's another problem here. Because film maker mode is going to be a single preset across many different models of TVs from many different manufacturers, it actually may not yield the best results subjectively to the viewer's eye on every display. While big-budget films are edited on professional mastering displays and while higher-end TVs can approximate the same quality and would thus benefit the most from film maker mode, content on lower-end TVs might still look a bit better with some of the post-processing features that film maker mode cuts out. We encountered this recently in a review of a low-end monitor that we found that we kind of had to crank the vibrancy up in order to get it to look good. Just don't tell James Cameron. So thanks for watching guys, like, dislike, check out our other videos, leave a comment if you have a suggestion for a future fast as possible. Very few people actually do it. Come on! Give us some ideas! And don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on seeing your idea on the big screen. Film maker mode."}