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Your DaVinci Resolve workstation will connect its dual SDI outputs to the BMD Smart Videohub,
which splits the video signal to two mirrored sets of SDI outputs. One mirrored pair of SDI
outputs goes to your HDR display. The other mirrored pair of SDI outputs goes to the
CMU(Content Mapping Unit), which is itself connected to your SDR display via SDI. Lastly, the
Resolve workstation is connected to the Dolby CMU via Gigabit Ethernet to enable the CMU to
communicate back toResolve.
The CMU is an off-the-shelf video processor that uses a combination of proprietary automatic
algorithms and colorist-adjustable metadata within Resolve to define how an HDR-graded
video shouldbe transformed into an SDR picture that can be displayed on a standard Rec. 709
display, as well as how theenhancement layer should scale itself to varying peak
luminance levels.
Auto Analysis is Available to All Studio Users
Resolve Studio enables either unlicensed or licensed users to automatically analyze the image
and generate Dolby Vision analysis metadata. This metadata is used to deliver Dolby Vision
content and to render other HDR and SDR deliverables from the HDR grade that you’ve made.
This enables any DaVinci Resolve Studio user to create Dolby Vision deliverables with Level 1
metadata. However, manual trimming of the analysis metadata requires a license from Dolby.
The commands governing Dolby Vision auto-analysis which are available to all Resolve Studio
users are available in the Color > Dolby Vision™ submenu, as well as the Dolby Vision palette,
and consist of the following:
Analyze All Shots: Automatically analyzes each clip in the Timeline and stores the
results individually.
Analyze Selected Shot(s): Only analyzes selected shots in the Timeline.
Analyze Selected And Blend: Analyzes multiple selected shots and averages the
result, which is saved to each clip. Useful to save time when analyzing multiple clips
that have identical content.
Analyze Current Frame: A fast way to analyze clips where a single frame is
representative of the entire shot.
Once you analyze a clip, the Min, Max, and Average fields automatically populate with the
resulting data. Once populated, these fields are not editable.
The metadata fields for each clip
Additionally, clips that have been analyzed show an HDR badge in the Thumbnail timeline, to
help you keep track of which clips have been analyzed and which have yet to be.
Analyzed clips have HDR badges to identify them
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