Adjusting content work flow infrastructures for HDR

Abstract

This paper discusses what areas of a content workflow infrastructure are affected by integrating new high dynamic range (HDR) video formats into the system while also still continuing to process the standard dynamic range (SDR) format of the content. First, we present the history of SDR and what benefits HDR can bring. We then look at potential efficiencies in the capture-production-distribution domains where the HDR/SDR paths do not need to be separated and other places where they should be separated to avoid a potential loss in quality. Lastly, we discuss some of the HDR variants and how the infrastructure could handle dynamic metadata as it passes through the relevant workflow domains.