3ds max/Vray still render settigs for HDR TVs

[Anonymous]

I'm working on a series of still renders and my boss is convinced that there's something I need to do in my pipeline (3ds max > Vray > Photoshop) that will enable HDR colors for a HDR TV.

I'm fairly convinced that a still render is a still render but I will say that my technical knowledge on image bit depth is almost non-existent as I use this pipeline for concept art (so just pretty pictures basically).

My only guess would be that rather than rendering out jpegs, I would instead render out EXRs and convert them to 16bit (so I can access layer adjustments in Photoshop) and then save out that file as, what a png? tiff?. But would that look different on a HDR TV than if I'd used an 8-bit photoshop doc?

[Anonymous]

I'm working on a series of still renders and my boss is convinced that there's something I need to do in my pipeline (3ds max > Vray > Photoshop) that will enable HDR colors for a HDR TV.

I'm fairly convinced that a still render is a still render but I will say that my technical knowledge on image bit depth is almost non-existent as I use this pipeline for concept art (so just pretty pictures basically).

My only guess would be that rather than rendering out jpegs, I would instead render out EXRs and convert them to 16bit (so I can access layer adjustments in Photoshop) and then save out that file as, what a png? tiff?. But would that look different on a HDR TV than if I'd used an 8-bit photoshop doc?

[Anonymous]

also you can render to 48 bit png

it will be 16 bit per channel

[Anonymous]

also you can render to 48 bit png

it will be 16 bit per channel

[Anonymous]

thanks. But how will this translate to HDR TV? would we see a greater color depth vs rendering out 8 bit? and then, say we do what you say and render those pngs, what sort of file format then goes OUT of photoshop to be viewed on a HDR TV?

Sorry I'm totally clueless about this technology 🙂

[Anonymous]

thanks. But how will this translate to HDR TV? would we see a greater color depth vs rendering out 8 bit? and then, say we do what you say and render those pngs, what sort of file format then goes OUT of photoshop to be viewed on a HDR TV?

Sorry I'm totally clueless about this technology 🙂

[Anonymous]

Yes having more bits will give you more colors. Often a magnitude in difference.

If you need to know what output format needs to go on the Television, it is best you look up the file formats the specific television you're working on can handle. From there it's trial and error.

Have fun with your project! 🙂

[Anonymous]

Yes having more bits will give you more colors. Often a magnitude in difference.

If you need to know what output format needs to go on the Television, it is best you look up the file formats the specific television you're working on can handle. From there it's trial and error.

Have fun with your project! 🙂