HDR for Live Production

HDR for Live Production

Overview

A wide variety of worldwide productions, such as high value live sports broadcasts, are migrating to High Dynamic Range (HDR) after realising the improvements in picture quality and audience experience. HDR signals can render the scenes more faithfully, providing a wider luminance range and an increased palette of colours that allow content creators to have more creative control and a closer true-to-life image.

Upgrading productions to HDR can be relatively cost-effective and straightforward, totally independent from resolution and fully backwards compatible. Future-proofing content for archive, international programme exchange, and strategically positioning organisations on the forefront of current technology trends.

Understanding HDR is critical for media professionals and essential for production engineers & technicians. Thanks to the work driven by EBU Technology & Innovation together with experts from the EBU Video Group over the past few years, EBU Academy is pleased to offer an in-person course designed to help your professionals understand what exactly HDR is and give them the practical skills they need to run live productions in HDR.

Who is it for

  • Broadcast engineers
  • Vision Engineers
  • Multi-skilled technical operators
  • Camera operators
  • Video editors & graphic designers
  • Producers and creative directors
  • Streaming & OTT platform managers

You will learn/skills learnt

  • HDR Fundamentals
    • Why HDR and When?
    • TV signal chain architecture
    • Consolidating SDR
    • HDR Standards
    • Conversions
    • Workflows
  • Practical and operational procedures
    • HDR Cameras
    • HDR Monitors
    • Conversion equipment
    • Signal test, measurement & Generation
  • Hands-on exercises & Q & As

Schedule

Day before: Setting up the studio/OB for the training

Day 1-2 (1-3): Training

Equipment needed for the course

Please refer to the equipment required and set-up recommendations document to run the training programme. It’s the responsibility of the organisation commissioning the course to secure the necessary equipment for the training course and the proper venue for the training (ideally a studio).

Meet your faculty

Hector Sole-Bradshaw Beltran

Lighting Camera Operator and a Broadcast Technical Consultant

Hector Sole-Bradshaw Beltran is a Lighting Camera Operator and a Broadcast Technical Consultant with experience in various projects across the television industry. 

He combines camera work with consulting to acquire a broad perspective on the strategic and practical aspects of the job. Hector specialises in camera technology and high-dynamic range (HDR), a field in which he assisted in the implementation and rollout of HDR for international events like the Olympics and the World Cup. The sharing and exchange of knowledge and peer-reviewed research are at the centre of Hector's work, and through publications and seminars, he promotes higher standards and working practices across the television industry as well as technological advancement. 

Hector is an active member of The Guild of Television Camera Professionals, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Society of Television Lighting and Design.