This is one of the easiest and yet the most detailed video I've ever seen to let you try edit and export iPhone hdr contents. Thanks to you, now I can try rendering my iPhone videos both HDR and SDR. I really appreciate your effort and thanks again. Applause from South Korea 👏👏

Finally! This is just what I need! Thank you so much! It should takes a lot of time to research and compile into anyone can simply understand! Truly Amazing!

One of the best HDR tutorials!!!

This was simple and really useful

thank you. Just got the pro max 12 and have been working with Resolve for a while. this will be very helpful. From being in the SLR then onto DSLR and finally mirrorless world the advent of these latest cell phone cameras are amazing. Who would have thought we’d be grading video from a phone a few short years ago? Not i....

This helped a lot, thank you!

Thank a lot for the informative video. Great job!

Awesome video!

DUDE!!!!!!! Love this tutorial!! I'll be referring back to this several times. Subscribed.

Perfect job thanks a lot This was simple and so effective

Thank you for the video

That's great video! Thank you!

Thanks for this excellent tutorial, the only one I could find which takes you step by step in detail. Following the method with my iPhoine 13 pro max footage I see the highlights are too bright & I need to apply a inverted S-curve to bring the highlights down & open up the shadows.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. You saved me.

Thank you!

thank you 1000 times

Very cool and surprised how good the 10 bit is with the iPhone 12. Still looking forward to you doing a intro basics to Davinci Resolve for old guys like me lol

I have those same audio monitor. man do they sound good. went form Yamaha HS series and the fidelity between the two was night and day. expensive but worth it

@ Post. Color. Gear thank you very much for this content , if you can give a solution to grading logv2 - 4k hdr from filmic pro , please it would be really helpful

I do the same thing in mine for importing and color space, but when I view it using Dolby Vision it is very oversaturated, I'm using Resolve 17, any advice/help?

Hi, about Dolby Vision, I tried to shoot the same clip with DV on first and then with DV off and I have to say that of course the overall image quality and colors are much better with DV on. The only thing I noticed that seems pretty odd to me is that high lights seems be clipped much more with DV on. For example, I shoot from the inside my room and outside the windows everything is white (clipped). Then, the same video with DV off has some details outside. I'm not watching the videos on computers or TV but just by my phone12. Do you know why is that? Can it be something related to the auto color correction that the phone applies? I am a filmmaker so I know what I am talking about, it's just seems very strange to me that the highlights with Dolby Vision on my phone are much more clipped that standard video.

Thank you for this! Would love to if you'd consider doing a video on importing and exporting Bt.2020 pro res footage from the 13 pro in Davinci Resolve, I can't find anything on this yet because it's so new, and the colours look very weird when I bring my footage into DVR.

Can i export in h265 with dolby vision metadates and play it on an dolby vision oled from an usb?

Hi, Thank you for your video:) Maybe i'm stupid but what is the difference between Dolby Vision's trim features and just go back to global Gain,Saturaion and make adjustments like you did?

Thanks for your tutorial. I use iPhone 12pro Final cut and trying to upload my HDR video once in PQ rec 2020 and once in HLG rec 2020. However, KZfaq isn't recognizing it as HDR in the playback and options gear doesn't show HDR in Chrome. I wonder what's wrong? Any idea please?

Can we apply the same settings when we have few 10 bit HDR videos and few 8 bit videos out of the same iPhone and wanted to edit them into one video? Do you have any suggestions for that during edit or during it's export?

Hi! I have a question, I'm looking at the HDR and SDR version of the output video. I have an HDR oled screen, i tried to play the HDR version but looks like its not working, as the colors are washed out, using Chrome as firefox doesnt show the HDR option on te cog wheel for quality, and windows on HDR mode toggled on. On my iphone 12 with the youtube app works fine though. Do you know why it may not be working, maybe windows bad compatibility with HDR at the moment? Also, could you do a tutorial on workflow WITH and HDR OLED display? Should we just turn on HDR mode, switch to HDR rec.2020 mode on davinci or is the any more steps apart from the ones on this video we should do. Thank you so much, this was really informative

When i export the edited video back to my iphone 12 pro max (airdrop from mac to iphone) It plays the video in frames... like in a slideshow... this is in the default photo's app...but when i put it into vlc app (through itunes) it plays perfectly on the iphone? any idea whats going wrong? I'm unable to upload to Instagram coz of this.

What hdr monitor should i purchase to color grade the dolby digital hdr footage?

Very informative! It would be great to see this with dr18. I’m having trouble with differences in menus.

Thanks for your very technical exponation. I wonder, even youtube support HDR contents but most of us we don't have a HDR screen. I understand that that's more pro environment. What's the point for us?

So I have HDR monitor so l use Dolby vision like in video and mastering monitor on Dolby vision page on list too one 100 so l have HDR monitor l need use other on list ?

Wonderful tutorial, I'm following along but unfortunately Enable HDR Scopes is greyed out, I can't tic the box. Any clues? Thanks so much!

Hi, what to do if some is rec 709 and some rec2020 footage, and i want to export rec2020?

Thank you so much for this video. It is much easier to digest than other tutorials I found. I'm really really new to Davinci Resolve and HDR (I've only edited SDR with Vegas Pro). I was trying to find out more about this because I don't have any HDR displays (to view or edit on), but my phone defaulted to this HDR format for recording. From what I understand, if 99% of the time I'm just viewing my videos on SDR displays and not editing them, I should just disable the HDR recording altogether. However, let's say I am making a video where I do plan to edit/process the footage (again, only planning to deliver to SDR). Is there a true advantage to recording in Dolby Vision HDR, grading, and then converting to SDR? On paper, it seems like HDR footage would give you more initial data to work with, so maybe there's an advantage there. There's also the new ProRes recording support coming soon - what'd be the difference there versus this HDR recording in terms of grading flexibility?

For HDR (HDR 10, Dolby vision ) workflow ,(rec 2020,Rec 2100 ,Hlg ,pq,Dci ) which pc monitor is perfect

We can drop dolby vision and stay with hlg slog 3?

Hello sir, can you tell me what method you used to get the files from your phone to your PC while maintaining the HDR metadata?

Wow, wow, wow! That's what I needed badly. Thanks a lot for this extremely helpful tut. I was wrapping my head around that DV thingy and could not figure it out myself. Now it's much more clear. That's for me worth a sub :-) One piece of a puzzle that is still missing for me to understand it: if you export the footage with the settings you mentioned (except for KZfaq), will it play as DV on a HDR TV set? Thanks a lot again. Greg

Dave, thank you for this great tutorial. 😊 I have a question: If my intention would not be delivery in HDR but in SDR, would this workflow be comparable to working with LOG footage? Working with LOG footage gives me more scope for color correction etc. than Rec.709, especially with 10 bit footage. Would I have this advantage as well, when grading iPhone 12 Dolby Vision footage in resolve - with delivery in Rec.709?

how do you actually import the video from Iphone 12, when I try to use the file that comes out of the iphone and import it to Davinci 16 I get a error message "media offline". any ideas what could cause that?

Hey, Dave great as always. The video is so much detailed. I always wondered about how to tackle the HDR footage in resolve since HDR is not a usual go to way for all the filmmakers. So maybe if there is permission, you can share these footage in full quality via Drive to practice!? Just asking if you have permission or with a note in black line on the video.

Thank you for great video. May I ask what screen are you using, I see you have so much space on the screen🤔

Thank you for this video. I’m new to resolve but have planned to learn it exactly fold the reason it can apparently work with the footage from the iPhone 12. Looking at some comments it looks like it does not output a file read by displays as DV though? You are using the paid (Studio) version of resolve correct? I read that the studio version does have some Dolby Vision stuff built in but that there is also a Dolby vision license for more advanced stuff. Maybe we need that to actually output a Dolby vision file?

I am on v17b3 but do not see "Enable HDR Scopes for ST.2084 and HLG" in preferences -> Color under user. Is that preference moved somewhere else?

Hi! is it possible to edit Dolby Vision HDR in Premiere pro please?

Thank you very much but Davinci 17 menu is different.

I tried your tutorial but for some reason, I can't seem to follow along as it seems the options you have is different to the options I have? I have resolve the free version? Is that the reason behind why I can't do it properly?

Hello, new iphone 13 pro user here. When I record HDR video and drag the file to my PC, open in vlc, it appears to be BT.709. The video has the HDR icon on the phone library page. I cant find one video that mentions this. Everyone skips by the first step of the process and just goes to the editing part. To my mind, I cant just tell resolve to master a video in BT2020 when the source file appears to be 709. Again Im fairly new to this so forgive me if I sound stupid. Any info would be appreciated, cheers!

So you usw the Studio Version? Because I without the Studio Version, cant't Open my h.256 footage in resolve, and I am using Windows too. And in my Version( the newest) I am Missing the Dolby Vision Tab

I looked at your tutorial on how to display video in HDR but it does not show up as in HDR, only in 4k.

iPhone 12 isn’t the only iPhone that shoots 10-BIT video. There are a few apps that enable HDR10 HVEC on any iPhone but you need to get the link because Apple doesn’t allow them to be seen while browsing apps. Also, it’s not Dolby’s twist mixed with Apples AI so it’s better to grade with.

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unfortunately if you're on PC and your iPhone has IOS15, you're out of luck. When the files are transferred, they get automatically converted into H.264 8-Bit, losing the HDR information.

try watching this on a 16' inch macbook display buddy, it makes my eyes bleed.

get proper hardware first

Great stuff. I have been struggling for days watching videos here on KZfaq from other bloggers to learn to upload HDR videos to KZfaq. In vain. Thanks to your video here I was finally able to succeed doing exactly that. I'm deeply indebted to you for this. You are one of a handful few who know your stuff, although you are being quite modest about it. I had one question. I have edited a draft video of mine for HDR upload based on input ProRes 422 footage. The resulting file, compressed with H.265 as you suggested came out as 4.2.0. for reasons I don't understand. Any idea why? I followed your workflow shown here almost step by step, so I figured you might know the reason why. Thanx much in advance, and keep up the good work.