InvSnarf
New Member
HDR is a bane to me sometimes. The content that I record is mostly older games, so I have had the pleasure of not dealing with HDR for a while. But I am now squarely in the middle of a LP series with a game that actually utilizes HDR in a way that I don't want to turn it off as I think it genuinely makes the game look better.
So, onto my "problem". I have two scenes/canvases that I record. On the primary scene I have my gameplay and mic audio. On my secondary scene I have two cameras for Host and Co-Host reactions on one half and then a chroma-green color source with a chat overlay on the other half to record the live chat in a way that I can manipulate in post. I have all of these grouped into a folder and then use Source Record on the folder itself to capture the scene in it's entirety for later post production. And this honestly works really well when everything is SDR.
HDR causes some issues. I have a profile setup to use the P010 color format and Rec 2100 PQ as the color space and I get some pretty decent results for the gameplay as that feeds in an HDR signal and after a simple color correction in post, I get correct colors that still retain the HDR look. That took me MUCH longer to figure out but now that it is, I am very happy with it.
The issue is in that second scene. The cameras I use for face cam's are just sony a5100's and do not output HDR, they can only output YUY2 color. And the color source I make in OBS, after I set my profile to use the P010/Rec.2100 it becomes faded and no longer the chroma-green I need for keying out. Further, even after color correction in post, I cannot get the correct colors to match anything like their SDR counterparts, which makes sense honestly.
So, my current solution is to have two instances of OBS running at the same time, one to record with the HDR profile I setup and the other in SDR for the cameras. This is not as elegant as just being able to setup a source-record filter as I cannot control both OBS instances with a single button press. It works, I thankfully have a powerful enough PC that it can handle two OBS's instance recording at the same time, but it feels far from elegant.
Does anyone have a better solution for recording both SDR and HDR sources so I can keep the correct colors?
Is there a magic LUT that I can put on my SDR footage recorded in the HDR profile to get it back to the correct SDR colors?
Do you have a way to start/stop recordings on two instances of OBS at the same time?
So, onto my "problem". I have two scenes/canvases that I record. On the primary scene I have my gameplay and mic audio. On my secondary scene I have two cameras for Host and Co-Host reactions on one half and then a chroma-green color source with a chat overlay on the other half to record the live chat in a way that I can manipulate in post. I have all of these grouped into a folder and then use Source Record on the folder itself to capture the scene in it's entirety for later post production. And this honestly works really well when everything is SDR.
HDR causes some issues. I have a profile setup to use the P010 color format and Rec 2100 PQ as the color space and I get some pretty decent results for the gameplay as that feeds in an HDR signal and after a simple color correction in post, I get correct colors that still retain the HDR look. That took me MUCH longer to figure out but now that it is, I am very happy with it.
The issue is in that second scene. The cameras I use for face cam's are just sony a5100's and do not output HDR, they can only output YUY2 color. And the color source I make in OBS, after I set my profile to use the P010/Rec.2100 it becomes faded and no longer the chroma-green I need for keying out. Further, even after color correction in post, I cannot get the correct colors to match anything like their SDR counterparts, which makes sense honestly.
So, my current solution is to have two instances of OBS running at the same time, one to record with the HDR profile I setup and the other in SDR for the cameras. This is not as elegant as just being able to setup a source-record filter as I cannot control both OBS instances with a single button press. It works, I thankfully have a powerful enough PC that it can handle two OBS's instance recording at the same time, but it feels far from elegant.
Does anyone have a better solution for recording both SDR and HDR sources so I can keep the correct colors?
Is there a magic LUT that I can put on my SDR footage recorded in the HDR profile to get it back to the correct SDR colors?
Do you have a way to start/stop recordings on two instances of OBS at the same time?