TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Advanced

8 min

Work with HDR

Accurately view HDR on HDR capable hardware while you work.

What you’ll learn

High Dynamic Range

HDR enhances the brightness, contrast, and colors in your video and motion graphics projects, allowing for deeper blacks, brighter highlights, and more vibrant colors.

Enable HDR Previews

Open the Color Management tab in the Project Settings window. Enable HDR previews by changing the bit depth to 32 bits and selecting an HDR color space, such as Rec.2100 PQ, from the dropdown menu.

Apply effects

Some effects are not supported by HDR, but using the HDR Compander effect before and after the incompatible effect will enable their use.


Instruction and illustrations by

Jess Libby

February 24, 2025

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