SDR TO HDR

RECOVER TRUE HDR
FROM 8-BIT FOOTAGE

Bring in an 8-bit clip and get back a real 16-bit HDR EXR sequence —
blown highlights rebuilt, crushed shadows cleaned, and you decide what comes back.

FOOTAGE PENDING
FOOTAGE PENDING
8-BIT SDR16-BIT HDR · EXR
SOURCE · 8-BIT SDRDRAG TO COMPAREBEEBLE · 16-BIT HDR · EXR

See what was never lost.

8-bit footage throws away detail in the brightest and darkest parts of every frame. SwitchHDR brings it back — highlight detail reconstructed, shadow noise suppressed — without touching the performance.

FOOTAGE PENDING
FOOTAGE PENDING
SOURCE · 8-BITBEEBLE · 16-BIT HDR
FULL CLIPSDR / HDR SPLIT · UPLOADED IN REC.2100 HLG — VIEW IN HDR ON YOUTUBE

ONLY ON BEEBLE

You decide what comes back.

Every other tool guesses. Beeble lets you direct the recovery — by region, and by intent. No one else gives you this.

01 — REGION

Mask by luminance.

Set a threshold with a slider — this much is shadow, this much is highlight. Outside the mask, Beeble stays faithful to your original, pixel for pixel. Inside, it reconstructs the lost detail with more latitude. You draw the line between preserve and rebuild.

Luminance-threshold mask UI — highlight and shadow overlays with histogram slider
02 — INTENT

Direct it with a prompt.

Tell SwitchHDR what belongs in the recovered region — sunset, blue sky, ocean. The detail comes back the way your shot intended, not the way a model guessed.

Clear blue sky, soft clouds
Recovered sky regionRECOVERED REGION

OUTPUTS

Built for your pipeline. Ready to view.

You don't just get an EXR you can't open without DaVinci. You get everything you need to finish — and to see it now.

EXR · ACES AP0

16-bit EXR sequence

True HDR in the professional container your pipeline already runs on. Drop it straight into Nuke, Resolve, or Flame.

shot_042_ACES2065-1.[000001-000240].exr
HDR MOV

HDR MOV

Plug in an HDR display and watch it immediately. See the recovery the moment it finishes.

shot_042_hdr.mov
MP4 · MATTES

Shadow & highlight mattes

Separate shadow and highlight mattes. Take the masks into your grade and push the recovery further, anywhere.

shot_042_mask_shadow.mp4 · mask_highlight.mp4

UP TO 240 FRAMES (10S @ 24FPS) · UP TO 1080P · IN: MP4/MOV 8-BIT

WHERE IT FITS

Grade without bandingMatch HDR deliverablesRecover plates for VFXReframe lighting in the grade

THE MODEL BEHIND IT

Powered by SwitchHDR.

Our own model, developed in-house and trained on real HDR footage — not an API wrapper, not a filter. The recovery is grounded in how light actually behaves.

Read the research →

Recover your first shot.

Bring in an 8-bit clip and get back true 16-bit HDR — highlights rebuilt, shadows cleaned, every region under your control.