kliksphilip | HDR Using my Panasonic GH5-S @kliksphilip | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
You need an HDR screen to see this. If you don't have one, your phone might!
See SDR here - youtu.be/Uwq2ylYBdhk
HDR is currently a lost cause. Settings either don't work, or look overblown. Even after all these years, support for it is so limited and buggy! But hopefully this video will demonstrate just how bright the HDR parts of a video can look. No colour correction or editing was done of any sort, beyond finding the HDR colour profile that didn't muted / over-exposed the footage the least. You should have seen the other profiles! I literally tested every one.
For anybody following in my footsteps, who happens use a GH5 to record footage and Vegas to edit (And me in 6 months time when I've forgotten how I did this!), HERE is how to get it working on Youtube in HDR.
1) Record on your GH5 using 10 bit 4K 30 fps Long Gop 150 mbps.
2) Once it's loaded in Vegas, set Project properties to: imgur.com/QFhQhfa
3) Go to Project Media, select it all then click the cog above for 'Media Properties': imgur.com/clVOQpT
4) Then render with these settings: imgur.com/jRxsTEp ...but of course, matching it to your framerate. In my case, 29.97 fps.
5) Upload to Youtube, discover it doesn't play in HDR
6) Wait a week
7) ???
8) Profit! It is now encoded in 4K HDR.
And before you say 'you used the wrong settings!', yeah, I tried the right ones and they didn't work, then wasted dozens of hours of my life rendering literally hundreds of different combinations until one looked right. Vegas doesn't like GH5 HDR files. This was done in Vegas 19. If you have something different... God help you
You need an HDR screen to see this. If you don't have one, your phone might!
See SDR here - youtu.be/Uwq2ylYBdhk
HDR is currently a lost cause. Settings either don't work, or look overblown. Even after all these years, support for it is so limited and buggy! But hopefully this video will demonstrate just how bright the HDR parts of a video can look. No colour correction or editing was done of any sort, beyond finding the HDR colour profile that didn't muted / over-exposed the footage the least. You should have seen the other profiles! I literally tested every one.
For anybody following in my footsteps, who happens use a GH5 to record footage and Vegas to edit (And me in 6 months time when I've forgotten how I did this!), HERE is how to get it working on Youtube in HDR.
1) Record on your GH5 using 10 bit 4K 30 fps Long Gop 150 mbps.
2) Once it's loaded in Vegas, set Project properties to: imgur.com/QFhQhfa
3) Go to Project Media, select it all then click the cog above for 'Media Properties': imgur.com/clVOQpT
4) Then render with these settings: imgur.com/jRxsTEp ...but of course, matching it to your framerate. In my case, 29.97 fps.
5) Upload to Youtube, discover it doesn't play in HDR
6) Wait a week
7) ???
8) Profit! It is now encoded in 4K HDR.
And before you say 'you used the wrong settings!', yeah, I tried the right ones and they didn't work, then wasted dozens of hours of my life rendering literally hundreds of different combinations until one looked right. Vegas doesn't like GH5 HDR files. This was done in Vegas 19. If you have something different... God help you
