Working with HDR video

When working with HDR video footage, there is a convenient HDR mode setting in the Project Properties dialog to assist you to set several relevant options for HDR in one place.

Selecting HDR10 or HLG in the drop-down menu will turn on all of the following settings:

  1. Set Project Pixel format to "32-bit floating point (full range)" in Project Properties Dialog
  2. Set appropriate View Transform ("Rec 2020 ST2084 1000 nits (ACES)" for HDR10 and "Rec 2020 HLG 1000 nits (ACES)" for HLG) in Project Properties Dialog
  3. Enable "HDR Preview" in the Preferences | Preview Device dialog and the "HDR Preview" toolbar button above preview window, if suitable hardware is available. This applies to both windowed and full-screen preview
  4. Set the HDR Compatible Output filter in the Render As... dialog. The presets will be filtered based on HDR mode.
  5. Enable the Master Display Settings in Project Properties dialog.
  6. Selecting Off will reset all of the settings to default project settings.