Hi all,
I hope you are doing well?
Apologies for my lack of knowledge regarding some of these processes but had hoped that someone may be able to advise me on what I may be doing wrong. I have been trying to get some insight into the below for a few days now. Stumbling onto this thread it appears that there are some extremely knowledgeable people when it comes to HDR and hope that you don't mind if I may ask for your guidance?
I have been capturing 4k HDR 60FPS footage using the Avermedia Gamer Bolt from the Xbox and uploading to YouTube. Most of the time the footage looks pretty good when in HDR mode on a HDR display but appears to lack crispness and appears slightly blurry when viewing the same footage with HDR turned off. I am not sure if this is just a result of the absence of the dynamic range or if something else may be going on. When I capture the same footage without using HDR the resulting footage looks higher resolution than what YouTube is putting out in the SDR conversion.
I have been having on and off issues with the HDR capturing for a couple of weeks now, really trying to dial things in and get a steady workflow/process but keep running into odd issues.
I use Avermedia's own capturing software "RECentral 4" as I understand that this is one of the only ways to record/capture HDR?
If I upload the raw clip to YouTube which is encoded using H.265 Main10@L6.1 High, generally so far YouTube has recognized it as HDR and will be enabled on compatible displays once processing has completed.
If I use Adobe Premiere Pro to splice two files together and export using either H.265 Main10 or H.264 High10 it generally seems that YouTube will also detect those files as HDR and process accordingly.
What I have recently noticed though is that If I have imported one of the raw captures from the Gamer Bolt into Premiere Pro and then used the razor tool to trim it, no matter what I do in terms of export settings, YouTube will not flag it as HDR even though in Media Info it appears that all of the information is correct and virtually identical to the original file.
I haven't needed to do this for a couple of the other clips, but I was also attempting to try exporting using the YouTube 4k preset in Premiere Pro, the only issue I am finding with that is that even if I select the encoding profile as High10, the two options in "basic video settings" "Rec.2020 Color Primaries" and "High Dynamic Range" both stay greyed out no matter what settings I change.
If anyone can possibly advise on any of the above I would be hugely grateful.