Editing iPhone HDR Video in FCP - PART 2

A top video! This is a complicated subject with lots of confusion and misleading advice all over the Web. Mark's explanation, delivered in such a clear coherent manner is brilliant. It completely explains all the elements and the correct way to use them. It must have taken a lot of hard work to produce this incredibly useful explanation. This is definitely a video I will be sharing with my colleagues, quite a few who I know are not getting their iPhone 12 HDR videos to look right. Thank you Mark Spencer for your efforts and commitment to making this video. Your efforts are very much appreciated.

Amazing video, thanks a lot for your precision !

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As someone new to video editing, this is the best, concise, and complete video I’ve found on the subject. Not only have you said what to do, you’ve also debunked other recommended methods and even added the compressor step at the end. Thank you so much for this.

Great video and allowed me to solve my issue quickly! I needed to post some clips on social media, clips were filmed in HDR on an iphone. Social media person here, not a video editor. Thank you!

This was exactly the information I needed. I just started shooting HDR with iPhone 14 and was confused about HDR. This cleared up a lot.

Thanks for sharing! I'm just a silly actor who upgraded to iPhone 14 from the iPhone XS Max, did a really demanding tape, and almost had a mini heart-attack when I uploaded to Final Cut Pro. HDR Tools effect.. would have never known!

This is a very good video, I was looking for such simple and clear explanation and here i got it ! thank you very much !

I also use an adjustment layer to deal with the HDR issue BUT the footage still looks a bit washed out..

Fantastic video !

Thanks you are the best 👋👍

Great video !
For my editing of 4K Dolby Vision footages, I am deciding whether to buy Macbook M1 Pro instead of M1 Max.

Under M1 Pro, would the video editing work for 4K Dolby Vision footages be as smooth as the editing work for normal 4K footages? I hope there is no dropping frames or any other issue during the 4K Dolby Vision video editing/playback.

Your feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your comment on this matter.

Excellent video. Sadly, my FCPX (10.4.10, under Mojave) does not have HLG to 709 as an option (it does have HDR to 709, or HLG to PQ), so your proposed fix doesn't work for me. :/

awesome video, thanks for making it. It answered so many questions I had about HDR workflows in FCPX (I'm just starting to use the tool).

This video has helped greatly when facing my first 4K HDR project in FCPX, thanks!

Only doubt that I still have is in regards to the "conversion" form SDR to HDR. While I can adjust the clips through the color board I was also considering using the HDR Tools effect and using the PQ to HLG mode. This seems to quickly upgrade the SDR clips shot with an action camera so they would match the clips coming from an iPhone 13 shot with Dolby Vision. I'm not sure if that's an acceptable method but it is a very quick fix for the SDR content.

Thank you, Mark. I learnt so much from your clarifications, though I'll need to watch it over a few more times.

Thanks a lot for this video. I spend so much time trying to understand all of these... One more time - thank you! 🙂

This has been happening with my iphone 14 pro footage now and this is the only video that actually helped fix it. Thanks so much

how to add titles/text into HLG clips ? it seems that all added text/titles are ‘dark or gray’ not display properly. Thanks.

A complicated subject was made simple. Congratulations!

Ive been using Handbrake to compress. Is there a faster way to export to Compressor to accomplish the same thing? Needing MP4. Do you have a video on this? Thanks Mark.

You are always amazing Mark. Thanks

Thank you so much for this video. Very Informative and articulates

Very interesting, thanks. If, on the other hand, I wanted a PQ and not HLG encoded file as output, how should I convert in FCPX and would you suggest this conversion? Thanks

Great tips. I imported HDR into fcpx from iPhone pro 14. 24fps, cinematic, but its blowing out the RGB lights in the back. The subject looks great but the background doesn’t. Any tips to avoid RGB lights completely over exposed? Is that lens correction? My sony camera doesn’t do that. iPhone is doing some computation to over expose those tiny lights in the back. Help please !

Hi, is there a solution to get rid of the "flickering" in the picture? Mostley when filming trees, grassfields, or buildings? It is so anoying and i dont know how to get rid of it. It was in the 12 pro max and still is in my 13 pro max?

Thank you very much! Your video was very clear, and most importantly, concise. You did a great job of conveying high quality information in a simple, bare-bones way.

wow iv been doing the color space override like so many recommended on forums.....

Thank you very very very much!!! Invaluable information!

YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!!! I kept transferring my Final Cut XMLs to Davinici Resolve to export. It worked but it was time consuming. Now I can shut off those premiere pro users.

Thank you so much! You literally saved my nervous system

You saved me! I couldn’t wrap my brain around how a new iPhone video wasn’t compatible with new Apple editing software. This is why I never film on my iPhone… needlessly complicated.

Thank you -- very useful video. One problem that I encountered is that when I am working in a project with the Rec. 2020 HLG color space, photos in the timeline appear very dark.

Simply brilliant, even for someone technically challenged like myself! I was totally stumped today when l uploaded my footage from my new iPhone to Final Cut and discovered how overexposed the clips were....this video saved me a ton of headaches! Cheers 👍🇦🇺😁

Just what I was looking for! Thank you!

Wow Great in depth tutorial from a Master who know HDR DolbyVision in so much details, is there a similar step by step tutorial for Davinci Resolve 17 users?
I have been trying editing in Resolve without much luck & wanting to do this simple way to arrange few clips shot on iPhone 13 pro Max.

This is such a useful tutorial!! Thank you! I do have a question - Why do my "fade to white" transitions now look grey? Is that a bug? Also footage I bring in from iPhone now seems incredibly dark and I have to 'push' the brightness max!? Any thought would be huge appreciated ! :)

This video was very informative and helpful, Thank you greatly for creating it and sharing your knowledge.

THank you!

Waaaay too much jabber. Video could’ve been just the segment from 8-9 minutes. Good grief. Smh🤦🏼‍♂️

awesome video and thank you. a few questions if you don't mind. when I airdropped the video to my phone 12 pro max I noticed the temp and the tint was a bit off. the iPhone looked a little on the cyan side where my new Mac Pro is looking more on the magenta side which I intended. I have not calibrated my MacBook Pro display since I read that they come calibrated form apple and are pretty accurate. Not sure if this is true. I am wondering if this is a discrepancy between to colors of the iPhone and the MacBook Pro display or if colors for some reason shifted during the export process?