MuoN HDR Converter App

High dynamic range (HDR) elevates image quality to the next level. Viewers of HDR video appreciate improvements in highlights, better contrast, and deeper, more realistic colors or, simply put – a much better and lifelike experience.

In production, your equipment might not be entirely HDR ready, which is why signals need to be up/down or cross converted at many places throughout the system. And even if all your hardware is HDR ready, there’s still a need to produce SDR copies, since most viewers don’t have an HDR TV set just yet.

The Riedel HDR App provides compatibility between the multiple SDR or HDR signal formats inside a live production environment. The conversion happens in real time using 3D LUT (Look-up-table) color transformation using variable file resolutions including 17x17x17, 33x33x33 and up to 65x65x65. Users can simply select the 3D LUT cube file defined for the color transform they need. The solution comes with a set of commonly used cube files provided by the BBC and NBC, but users can also download their own cube files.

Cube files cover the conversion between SDR and HDR or HDR to SDR and even HDR to HDR with different standards such as PQ, HLG or Slog3.

The App can run on the IP-to-IP MuoN B converter housed in a VirtU-32 and can provide up to 32 HDR conversion channels within a single rack unit.