Filmmaker Mode in HDR Explained | There’s Nothing Wrong With Your TV

Filmmaker Mode if you've bought a TV recently  there's a good chance that you've seen this   picture mode in your TV and if you've tried  it out you might already have some opinions   on how it looks but what's the truth about  Filmmaker Mode what's good what's bad and   why are there so many picture modes now  I've got the answers coming right up Welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison and by  popular request I'm going to tell you everything   you need to know about Filmmaker Mode as well as  some other new picture modes that you may or may   not have heard of like Netflix adaptive calibrated  mode and Prime video calibrated mode and how about   we make this more confusing Elitist Adaptive Expert  Calibrated Purist Mode I may have made that last   one up but I am not about wasting your time  so let's do this now if you've landed on this   video you may also have seen this result pop up  in a Google search for what is Filmmaker Mode it   says and I quote Filmmaker Mode disables certain  post-processing features such as motion smoothing   sharpening noise reduction and others and puts the  TV in a mode where the content is displayed as the   Director intended it without inadvertent changes  that may result from the TV's Advanced technical   capabilities that is an excerpt from Filmmaker  Mode.com and I think it's very unfortunate that is   the synopsis that you get because it is incomplete  and frankly not all that helpful I suppose Google   Shares some of the blame but the larger issue is  that the Coalition behind Filmmaker Mode put that   in their FAQ which is itself exhausting to look at  and it's just not very consumer friendly which is   ironic because it seems like this FAQ is meant  to educate consumers now I'm not pointing this   out to bash on anyone I just want to say that I  understand if you're frustrated that's why I'm   making this video to help you be less frustrated  but I also point out that blur because it has a   line in it that we're going to come back to time  and again as the Director intended is shorthand   for no motion smoothing or no soap opera effect  no over brightening or otherwise messing with   the images contrast no over sharpening and yes  to Accurate colors and gray scale it's like a   list of dos and don'ts and it exists because over  the years presumably to make their TVs look better   and better TV manufacturers have created a ton of  picture processing features that even though they   might make the picture look better to you and are  actually helpful they're turned on by default and   they make the movie that you're watching look  nothing like it did in the theater or more to   the point nothing like it does in a pitch black  room filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars   in fancy gear in which Hollywood folks spend  countless hours working really hard to make   something beautiful so Filmmaker Mode was created  as a shortcut a simple setting that you could   click on that would make sure that the TV didn't  do a bunch of stuff that would make the movies   that you watch look completely unlike the way they  did in the theater now for those of you a little   more technically minded that means preserving a  24 frame per second Cadence and d65 white Point   both of which I happen to be fine with but here's  the problem Filmmaker Mode also specifies the   luminance or brightness of the image both in terms  of average Picture level or average brightness and   Peak brightness and it's that last specification  the brightness stuff where Filmmaker Mode falls   apart for the overwhelming majority of you I mean  technically it isn't really falling apart it's   doing exactly what it's supposed to do it's just  that it fails you and the totally normal life that   you live in order for fil maker mode to truly  deliver an image as the Director intended you   have to watch the movie in a room that's as dark  as a commercial theater and I probably don't have   to tell you that most of us just don't watch TV in  an extremely dark room not all the time anyway and   that's either because we can't or we don't want to  so here's the Crux of the whole thing what happens   to a lot of folks is they turn on Filmmaker Mode  in a totally normally lit living room and it looks   dark dark and lifeless and maybe you think to  yourself this sucks who wants their TV to look   like this and the answer is nobody nobody wants  their TV to look like that in order for it to   look good you need to be in the dark and your  eyes need to be accustomed to the dark that's   what filmmaker is for so isn't there a better way  yes yes there is and I'm getting to that but I'm   not done talking about the other factors Filmmaker  Mode doesn't account for see your TV doesn't work   like a movie projector because of the way a TV's  panel refreshes 60 times a second or 120 times a   second it's actually technically hard to get a TV  to show you just 24 frames per second neither 60   nor 120 is evenly divisible by 24 which means some  trickery has to be pulled off in order for that 24   FPS movie to look right on your TV unfortunately  there are side effects of this trickery and one   of them is called jutter jutter is most apparent  when the camera is slowly panning across a scene   and you have a big open background with smaller  objects in the foreground those smaller objects   will appear to stutter in those panning shots and  it can be really annoying that jutter is one of   the reasons why motion smoothing was created  to begin with folks don't tend to like it so   TV manufacturers came up with a way to make  it go away and making it go away used to mean   making it look weird like a soap opera hence the  term soap opera effect but motion smoothing has   seen a lot of improvements over the years it can  now be adjusted so that it does just enough to   remove the jutter but doesn't make the movie look  like it's a soap opera Filmmaker Mode though bans   any motion smoothing at all so when you watch in  Filmmaker Mode you are likely to see some jutter   for some of you that's not a big problem but for  others it's the kiss of death and if you're in   the latter Camp that's just one more reason to  think that Filmmaker Mode sucks the other issue   is film grain now in this day and age when a lot  of films are actually shot digitally film grain   is basically digitally inserted into the image and  it can have some desirable properties but and in   Filmmaker Mode that grain will come through but  to a lot of folks that just looks like noise and   that's because it kind of is noise now outside of  Filmmaker Mode digital noise filters can get rid   of that to some extent but they don't always do a  great job and somehow otherwise harm the picture   so Filmmaker Mode says you cannot do digital  noise filtering so those are like the three   main problems for most folks Filmmaker Mode makes  the image too dark for their viewing environment   it turns completely off the one thing that can  reduce jutter and often lets through film grain   which some people perceive as noise or dirtiness  to the picture but you can change Filmmaker Mode   and make it look more like what you'd like it to  because while this picture mode turns stuff off it   rarely if ever locks out settings and I think it's  worth adjusting Filmmaker Mode because the color   accuracy that comes with it is worth a lot in my  opinion and all the AI stuff and over sharpening   that can actually make an image look worse in some  cases all of that is disabled by default it's just   less clicks for you in my opinion the pro hack  here is to pick Filmmaker Mode then turn up the   brightness or backlight setting to your desired  level then turn motion smoothing onto custom   that's what it's usually called but whatever  setting lets you make fine adjustments and then   you turn on just enough de jutter and deblur to  calm down the jutter but not make it look like a   soap opera and that really is going to be the best  way to watch a movie for the vast majority of you   but wait there's more hope I have a high sense you  n TV here and one of the interesting things about   this TV is that by default it's Filmmaker Mode has  the light sensor and automatic brightness settings   turned on and this means that when your room is  dark the image will be brought down to a level   closer to what the creators intended but when your  room is bright it will automatically brighten up   the image so it looks good in those conditions it  also changes the color temperature of the whites   and the gray scale which in a perfect world means  that the colors will look accurate no matter what   the color temperature of the lights in your room  are so if you have daylight LEDs it will balance   to that if it's much warmer in your room like  you've got sun or these practical lights where   there's more red and orange in the light then the  TV will adjust for that too this should get rid of   some of the impression that the image is yellowish  which is actually not a thing you're just used to   seeing blue screen so when something gets War  it looks a little off to you now not every TV   performs this sort of automated task very well  and that's why I prefer to do things manually as   I suggested earlier but at least this option is  now available it's more of a hands-off approach   and still preserve some of the Creator's intent  but there's one more thing that we haven't talked   about here and that is the fact that some of you  just don't care about the Creator's intent you   care about getting the image that you like and if  that's you you probably already chose a different   picture mode entirely and that is just fine there  are folks that will tell you that it isn't right   and I suppose if we judge that image against a  standard then it isn't right by that definition   but if what's right to you is that you like the  way the picture looks pick the picture mode that   you think looks best if it wears out your eyes try  a different one like maybe theater day instead of   standard and see how that goes the most important  thing here is that you try different picture modes   because the one your TV is set to out of the box  is probably an eco mode that seriously caps the   performance of the TV if you thought the TV  looked amazing at the store but kind of looks   lame at home in comparison that's probably why the  TV is only allowed to get so bright to conserve   energy so turn off the Eco mode and then watch  your TV spring to life now I mentioned at the   of this video Netflix adaptive calibrated mode  and Prime video calibrated mode think of these   as similar to Filmmaker Mode the difference  is that since Netflix and Amazon control the   apps they can partner with TV makers like Sony to  ensure that when you watch content on their apps   your TV automatically goes into these modes now  you can disable that and choose whatever picture   mode you want but you may have to do the work to  make that change more and more you're going to see   TVs going into these modes when you play content  on certain apps the good news for many of you   is that by default the same room sensor and auto  brightness SL auto color temperature settings will   be on by default as they are in Filmmaker Mode  should in theory uh give you a good experience   but for those of you out there thinking that  sounds like blasphemy don't worry you can turn   off the auto sensor stuff and never have to worry  about it again so that's the deal with filming   maker mode along with these other new picture  modes that you'll be seeing popping up on TVs   some of you are going to see them on new TVs that  you already own some of them you're going to see   them for the first time on your brand new TV but  hopefully now you understand what they are what   they do why they do what they do and what you can  do about it if you don't care for it if you found   this video 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Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Thu May 30 2024