GoPro's HDR is probably based on the original HDR that came out more than 10 years ago with the first Red cameras. It combines multiple exposures into a single frame, increasing the dynamic range. That's the basic idea. You might not notice a significant difference in shots with low contrast, but when shooting from a moving vehicle or through a window, you may gain a few extra stops of dynamic range. And that can be a significant improvement.
I have an update. After getting the GoPro 12, I recorded a mountain bike video using GoPro's HDR. Then I converted that video to HDR-PQ format. IT LOOKED AMAZING! but.... When I uploaded it to RUclips, the compression algorithm destroyed it. So it appears that the bottleneck is RUclips... On the other hand, not using GoPro's HDR, then upscaling to HDR post processing seems to work. The video doesn't look as good, but it survives RUclips compression I'll be posting a video on this soon
Hi so for someone looking at getting the 12, is the HDR feature a good feature or not? I know there are limited features when using hdr too so didn’t know if it’s with sacrificing either 8:7 or 5.3k. Thanks so much!
same, the only gopro hero 12 hdr i've found on youtube is from this LADmob channel with a video titled Venice Italy - Short Summer Walk along Grand Canal, which is fake as hell, at 1:40 since when did gopro cameras have shallow depth of field effect.
You can do real HDR with Hero 11 and 12 because they have 10 bit colors and work perfectly. You just need to post produce it with software and a monitor capable of show HDR rec.2020 and HLG for example, just as you do with high end cameras. Apple with the iPhone adds that real HDR directly without any postproduction what I think is not cool, because people do not know how to use it and 90% of those videos look terrible. HDR was not intended to use just to rise light and colors. Because without postproduction it looks the same or little better(sometimes) just brighter. What GoPro is not saying is they are using old tech, is a photo type of HDR just like RED cameras did at first with HDRx many years ago and professionals almost never use it. Some times it looks not realistic or fake dynamic range as photo hdr looks like.
Thank you, there’s a lot that I’m learning about hdr. I’m experimenting with creating an HDR video with the GoPro 9. I imagine the 8bit color will impact the final output
With 8-bit color you can still export HDR, but you are very limited in manipulating the footage and simply do not have the rage to do so. Although it could look good if you have the perfect lighting. With HDR content, what you want to do is manipulate where to place the darks and the highlights range from 100 to 1000 nits, the colors pop out very easy but for that you need at least 10 bits and a high bitrate camera. I can suggest you use al least GoPro 10 with GoPro Labs to increase the bitrate and you might get better results, but definitely Hero 11 and 12 are better for that.
Pretty much this, I haven't done anything with the 12 yet, but I've been doing a lot of work with the GP11 with my last couple of videos, yes the camera records in 10bit Rec 709, so I have to manually change my color space, but the results do have a higher dynamic range. But I think the GP12 might have a true HDR color space, as in HDR/Log mode you can't adjust the exposure comp like you can on the GP11 with just 10bit color on. I'm going to be doing a test video next week.
@Teampegleg I ended up getting the 12. I recorded an hdr video and converted it to full hdr format in Davinci. It looks amazing; however, RUclips is taking a long time to encode the hdr
GoPro's HDR is probably based on the original HDR that came out more than 10 years ago with the first Red cameras. It combines multiple exposures into a single frame, increasing the dynamic range. That's the basic idea. You might not notice a significant difference in shots with low contrast, but when shooting from a moving vehicle or through a window, you may gain a few extra stops of dynamic range. And that can be a significant improvement.
It's just a 11, with firmware/software updates
I have an update. After getting the GoPro 12, I recorded a mountain bike video using GoPro's HDR. Then I converted that video to HDR-PQ format. IT LOOKED AMAZING!
but....
When I uploaded it to RUclips, the compression algorithm destroyed it. So it appears that the bottleneck is RUclips...
On the other hand, not using GoPro's HDR, then upscaling to HDR post processing seems to work. The video doesn't look as good, but it survives RUclips compression
I'll be posting a video on this soon
Hi so for someone looking at getting the 12, is the HDR feature a good feature or not? I know there are limited features when using hdr too so didn’t know if it’s with sacrificing either 8:7 or 5.3k. Thanks so much!
I like to post videos to RUclips to share but would it be better to upload to GoPro to share?
I don’t think it’s worth it. Colors look off
same, the only gopro hero 12 hdr i've found on youtube is from this LADmob channel with a video titled Venice Italy - Short Summer Walk along Grand Canal, which is fake as hell, at 1:40 since when did gopro cameras have shallow depth of field effect.
You can do real HDR with Hero 11 and 12 because they have 10 bit colors and work perfectly. You just need to post produce it with software and a monitor capable of show HDR rec.2020 and HLG for example, just as you do with high end cameras. Apple with the iPhone adds that real HDR directly without any postproduction what I think is not cool, because people do not know how to use it and 90% of those videos look terrible. HDR was not intended to use just to rise light and colors. Because without postproduction it looks the same or little better(sometimes) just brighter.
What GoPro is not saying is they are using old tech, is a photo type of HDR just like RED cameras did at first with HDRx many years ago and professionals almost never use it. Some times it looks not realistic or fake dynamic range as photo hdr looks like.
Thank you, there’s a lot that I’m learning about hdr. I’m experimenting with creating an HDR video with the GoPro 9. I imagine the 8bit color will impact the final output
With 8-bit color you can still export HDR, but you are very limited in manipulating the footage and simply do not have the rage to do so. Although it could look good if you have the perfect lighting. With HDR content, what you want to do is manipulate where to place the darks and the highlights range from 100 to 1000 nits, the colors pop out very easy but for that you need at least 10 bits and a high bitrate camera. I can suggest you use al least GoPro 10 with GoPro Labs to increase the bitrate and you might get better results, but definitely Hero 11 and 12 are better for that.
Pretty much this, I haven't done anything with the 12 yet, but I've been doing a lot of work with the GP11 with my last couple of videos, yes the camera records in 10bit Rec 709, so I have to manually change my color space, but the results do have a higher dynamic range.
But I think the GP12 might have a true HDR color space, as in HDR/Log mode you can't adjust the exposure comp like you can on the GP11 with just 10bit color on. I'm going to be doing a test video next week.
@Teampegleg I ended up getting the 12. I recorded an hdr video and converted it to full hdr format in Davinci. It looks amazing; however, RUclips is taking a long time to encode the hdr
@@mtbmonk7076 Yeah it takes forever, IME at least 1-2 hours per a minute of length.
whatever. i just want to see details when i transition from dark to well lit environment. fpv drone fliers should understand me
Same here for mtb… sadly I didn’t notice any improvement during testing of GoPro 12s hdr feature. I will post the video soon
Thnx for this
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