SDR to HDR | Recover True HDR from 8-Bit Footage

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 Examples

01NY street — sunset highlights
02Hong Kong taxi — shadow banding & detail
03Flatiron — sky & facade

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FOOTAGE PENDING

SOURCE · 8-BIT BEEBLE · 16-BIT HDR

FULL CLIPS DR / HDR SPLIT · UPLOADED IN REC. 2100 HLG — VIEW IN HDR ON YOUTUBE

Beeble SDR to HDR Demo (Watch in HDR)

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.

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
BLUE SKYRED SKYPURPLE SKY

RECOVERED 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.

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

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

shot_042_hdr.mov

MP4 · 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

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.

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