Sony embraces HDR production with full end-to-end solution

From products, to workflow and format, Sony offers users end-to-end HDR production capabilities from acquisition to display, for cinema, live production, online video and event production. These solutions meet the industrys growing demand for a wider colour gamut and increased dynamic range that creates more realistic viewing experiences with enhanced levels of detail.

As previously announced, Sonys expansion of HDR production includes the addition of HD HDR Live broadcasting and instant HDR workflow in products ranging from live camera systems, servers, monitors and camcorders, via updates to software or firmware.

Along with the accelerated trend of HDR content, series of Sony 4K/HD live cameras, including the HDC-4800, HDC-4300 and HDC-P43 with HDR capability, are widely adopted by broadcasters world-wide. To enhance its Live HDR production offering further, Sony added a new XAVC recording mode to optimise encoding for HDR into its PWS-4500 4K/HD live server, available to users through a software upgrade. This new recording mode improves HDR image quality in XAVC with detailed complexity, bright skin tone, colour reproduction and more. It enables the PWS-4500 to record and replay superior HDR images at the same time maintaining the smooth XAVC file workflow that is already well known in the production industry.

Furthermore, Sony offers RAW and X-OCN recording formats. RAW is recommended for premium productions and high-end cinema, where large volumes of data can be managed and supported. X-OCN (eXtended Tonal Range Original Camera Negative) is an optimised format with a fine balance between the picture quality and data size. It can be recorded using the AXS-R7 portable memory recorder, together with PMW-F55 and F5 motion picture cameras. The X-OCN format retains everything the sensor sees, delivering tonal gradation with 16-bit precision ideal for HDR image grading. To help extend the use of X-OCN beyond Sony solutions, Sony is working with other companies to develop X-OCN supporting products.

The X-OCN supporting companies have risen to 10, as of April, 2017: ASSIMILATE, Inc. , Autodesk , Avid Technology, Inc., Blackmagic Design , Colorfront , Filmlight Ltd. , Grass Valley , nablet , Pomfort , SGO.

Sony offers systems, workflows and flexible recording formats that deliver unprecedented flexibility in every HDR production, bringing added-value to broadcasters.

*PWS-4500 version 2.3 software is planned for release in June, 2017.

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