Sony embraces HDR production with complete end-to-end solutions

Sony offers systems, workflows and different recording formats that provide unprecedented flexibility in each HDR production to bring added value to broadcasters.

From products to workflows and formats, Sony Demonstrates end-to-end HDR production capabilities, from acquisition to content display, for film, live production, online video and event production at NAB 2017. These solutions meet the industry's growing demand for a wider color gamut and greater dynamic range to create more life-like visual experiences with better levels of detail.

Sony's HDR production expansion includes the addition of HDR live streaming and instant HDR workflows, across products ranging from live camera systems, servers, monitors and camcorders, via software or firmware updates.

Along with the growing trend of offering HDR content, Sony's live 4K/HD camera series, including the HDR-capable HDC-4800, HDC-4300 and HDC-P43 models, are increasingly adopted by broadcasters around the world. To further enhance live HDR production, Sony has introduced the new XAVC recording mode to optimize the encoding of HDR content on its PWS-4500 4K/HD Live Server, available to users via a software update. This new recording mode improves the quality of HDR images in XAVC with greater level of detail, luminous skin tones, color reproduction and more. In this way, the PWS-4500 server can record and playback superior quality HDR images while maintaining the smooth XAVC file workflow that is already famous in the production industry.

RAW y X-OCN

Además, Sony ofrece los formatos de grabación RAW y X-OCN. El formato RAW se recomienda para producciones premium y cine de alta gama, donde se pueden gestionar y soportar grandes volúmenes de datos. X-OCN (eXtended Tonal Range Original Camera Negative) es un formato de video optimizado con un delicado balance entre calidad de imagen y tamaño de datos. Se puede grabar utilizando el grabador de memoria portátil AXS-R7 junto con las cámaras de cine PMW-F55 yF5. El formato X-OCN retiene todo lo que el sensor capta, ofreciendo una gradación tonal con precisión de 16 bits, ideal para la gradación de imágenes HDR. Con el objetivo de lograr un uso más generalizado del formato X-OCN, Sony está trabajando con otras compañías para desarrollar productos que soporten este formato.

Currently, there are already a dozen companies that support the X-OCN format: Assimilate, Autodesk, Avid, Blackmagic Design, Colorfront, Filmlight, Grass Valley, Nablet, Pomfort and SGO.