Apologies if this is in the wrong area of the forum, wasn't sure where best to place it. Interested to know if anyone else has had a similar experience, with HDR/OLED's becoming more of a regular staple in setups now.
I replaced a multi monitor setup a couple years back with a single OLED TV from LG (purchased before they released the 42" unfortunately). From a gaming/media perspective it's been excellent, stunning colours etc in HDR as I have become accustomed to with OLED. However I have recently stumbled across an unintentional issue I have created.
Various members in my family, including myself from time to time, use my setup for video capture/editing (4090 and i9-12900K etc, so makes sense). Previously they never have any issues. However my son has recently run into a problem. As mentioned, this is a single PC & monitor setup with no capture card or console attached, all games are played on the PC and captured on same said PC. When my son PC games on it he will have HDR activated, which looks great. At first OBS was capturing washed out colours when doling this, however this was easily rectified with a few settings tweaks in OBS, which can now happily capture in HDR. We've tried uploading this raw output footage to YouTube and watching it on other devices and it looks how we would expect, not washed out etc.
However the problem he then encountered is the fact that DaVinci Resolve doesn't allow for HDR footage to be simply uploaded into it - well you can upload it but it will appear washed out etc, as HDR won't activate. After some Googling last night it would appear that most people who use OLED's for colour grading use them as a secondary monitor and pass the image through a monitoring device, such as the Blackmagic DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K, in a PCIE slot - this then allows them to edit the footage on DaVinci Resolve on their normal non-HDR monitor but have the image constantly showing on the OLED, allowing them to colour grade correctly for HDR.
Is there a recommended workflow for this style setup? For example, can he game in HDR but capture it in some other format, then edit/colour code said footage in DaVinci Resolve without HDR on?
Ideally I'd prefer to keep the setup as one monitor, as for everything else it functions fantastically
. However if needed I don't mind making changes to the setup if required, as multiple people would benefit from it.
I replaced a multi monitor setup a couple years back with a single OLED TV from LG (purchased before they released the 42" unfortunately). From a gaming/media perspective it's been excellent, stunning colours etc in HDR as I have become accustomed to with OLED. However I have recently stumbled across an unintentional issue I have created.
Various members in my family, including myself from time to time, use my setup for video capture/editing (4090 and i9-12900K etc, so makes sense). Previously they never have any issues. However my son has recently run into a problem. As mentioned, this is a single PC & monitor setup with no capture card or console attached, all games are played on the PC and captured on same said PC. When my son PC games on it he will have HDR activated, which looks great. At first OBS was capturing washed out colours when doling this, however this was easily rectified with a few settings tweaks in OBS, which can now happily capture in HDR. We've tried uploading this raw output footage to YouTube and watching it on other devices and it looks how we would expect, not washed out etc.
However the problem he then encountered is the fact that DaVinci Resolve doesn't allow for HDR footage to be simply uploaded into it - well you can upload it but it will appear washed out etc, as HDR won't activate. After some Googling last night it would appear that most people who use OLED's for colour grading use them as a secondary monitor and pass the image through a monitoring device, such as the Blackmagic DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K, in a PCIE slot - this then allows them to edit the footage on DaVinci Resolve on their normal non-HDR monitor but have the image constantly showing on the OLED, allowing them to colour grade correctly for HDR.
Is there a recommended workflow for this style setup? For example, can he game in HDR but capture it in some other format, then edit/colour code said footage in DaVinci Resolve without HDR on?
Ideally I'd prefer to keep the setup as one monitor, as for everything else it functions fantastically
. However if needed I don't mind making changes to the setup if required, as multiple people would benefit from it.
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