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⚡ NEW · VESAI 2.3 · NEW HDR CORE

Every other tool fakes HDR.
VESAI masters it, scene by scene.

VESAI analyses your whole video, then masters real HDR10 from SDR: skin and midtones stay natural, highlights grow to your peak, bright skies and lights are controlled shot by shot, and MaxCLL / MaxFALL are measured from the result. One click for enthusiasts. Scopes, curves and full control for professionals. Plus AI upscaling up to 12K and frame interpolation.

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// PROOF IN MOTION — HDR-X CHANNEL

Watch real conversions from our YouTube channel

100K+ subscribers watch HDR-X for 4K/8K HDR trailers and head-to-head comparisons — all mastered with VESAI. Watch on an HDR screen for the full effect.

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SDR → HDR10 Real-Time Demo

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — SDR to HDR10, full video scan (VESAI 2.3.4)

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Supergirl (2026) Trailer — SDR to HDR10, full video scan (VESAI 2.3.3)

▶ More on HDR-X — YouTube

// SEE IT — DON'T TAKE OUR WORD

Drag the slider. That's real HDR.

Same frame, same display. The VESAI HDR10 master keeps skin and midtones true to the source and adds real highlight range: speculars, lamps and city lights rise toward the peak while large bright areas stay comfortable.

SDR SOURCE VESAI HDR10

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY (Marvel Studios - Fair Use)

AUTO-PLAYING · DRAG THE IMAGE TO COMPARE · TAP A BAR TO JUMP

// REAL HDR, RIGHT IN YOUR BROWSER

SDR original vs VESAI HDR10

The right image is the real HDR10 master (10-bit, PQ, BT.2020), exported by VESAI as AVIF. On an HDR screen - Windows HDR on in Chrome or Edge, or a recent iPhone, iPad, Mac or Android phone - it shows in true HDR, with highlights far brighter than this page's white.

FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA - Official Trailer 2 (Warner Bros. - Fair Use)

Not seeing a difference in brightness? Your screen or browser is showing the HDR image tonemapped to SDR. Turn on Windows HDR (Settings > Display > Use HDR) and open this page in Chrome or Edge, or view it on an HDR phone.

// NO HDR SCREEN? SEE THE DETAIL ANYWAY

The same idea on an SDR screen, through madVR

These are not the HDR images themselves: they are SDR simulations. Left: the SDR source. Right: the VESAI HDR10 master tonemapped by madVR at a very high target (about 900 nits), so the new highlight detail, specular lights, reflections and wider colour become visible on a normal screen. On an HDR display the master is far brighter than this.

Highlight detail, fully restored. In SDR the clouds and lights sit at SDR levels: washed out, flat, no depth. In the VESAI HDR master the clouds get their texture back, the lights get real intensity and the whole picture gains depth and contrast.

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING (Lionsgate - Fair Use)

Specular lights, reflections and colour. Not only more detail: the fountains, stadium lights and reflections become real specular highlights, the smoke colours open up with gamut expansion, and the coat and the crowd keep their natural tone.

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING (Lionsgate - Fair Use)

Why the HDR side looks darker here: an SDR screen can't show HDR brightness, so madVR compresses the whole HDR range into it to reveal the detail. On a real HDR display the same frame is far brighter, with highlights up to 1000 nits. Open the AVIF version on an HDR screen (Windows HDR on, or an HDR phone) to see it as it really is.

// NEW IN 2.3 — HOW VESAI MASTERS HDR

It watches the whole video before it touches a pixel

No fixed filter applied blindly to every frame. VESAI measures your video first, then builds the HDR master from what it found.

01 · ANALYSE

Every shot, every scene

Detects every shot (fades, dissolves and flashes included), reads the source range and measures the light in every scene, so the HDR never changes mid-shot.

02 · MASTER

VESAI Studio Tone

A studio-grade SDR-to-HDR curve built from your target peak. Faces and midtones stay where they were; highlights expand smoothly. Big glowing lights and skies are held back automatically, while glints and sparkles keep the full peak. With Specular isolation it happens pixel by pixel.

03 · DELIVER

Measured HDR10 metadata

MaxCLL and MaxFALL are measured from the actual converted video, not guessed, so TVs and players display the highlights correctly instead of clipping them.

// NEW IN 2.3.6 — SPECULAR ISOLATION

Speculars to the peak. Everything else stays comfortable.

Real HDR punch comes from small, very bright highlights. VESAI finds them on every frame and separates them from the large bright areas, pixel by pixel, automatically. In a grading suite, a colourist would do this by hand with a qualifier and a mask.

1000–4000

nits · speculars

Glints, lamps, reflections, sparks

Small, locally bright highlights rise to the full peak of your master: 1000, 1500, 2000 or 4000 nits.

350

nits · default ceiling

Skies, windows, white walls, lit faces

Large bright areas are held at the Highlight ceiling, so the TV's brightness limiter never pulls the whole picture down.

change · midtones

Faces, mids and shadows untouched

Only highlights are separated. Preview and encode are identical, and MaxCLL follows the specular peak.

Three controls: Specular isolation (strength), Highlight ceiling (100–4000 nits) and Specular peak (up to 10,000 nits). Ready presets for 1000, 1500, 2000 and 4000-nit displays.

// VESAI COLOUR SCIENCE

Built on HDR standards. Tuned by VESAI.

Real HDR10 mastering, not a filter: SDR decoded with BT.1886, mastered in BT.2020 with PQ (SMPTE ST 2084) output and measured MaxCLL / MaxFALL.

BT.1886BT.2020PQ · ST 2084BT.2100OKLABHDR10

01 · HUE-TRUE EXPANSION

Colours stay true

Brightness is expanded without changing a pixel's hue or saturation, so saturated colours don't shift or bleed as they get brighter. Only colours that would exceed the peak are eased gracefully toward white, like a real HDR master.

02 · HDR-NATIVE COLOUR

Colour processed in HDR

Colour is processed directly in the HDR signal, not in SDR. Skin tones, shadow colours and highlights keep their hue at every brightness level.

03 · PERCEPTUAL GRADING

Oklab colour vectors

Gamut expansion and six-vector hue and saturation controls can run in Oklab: pushing saturation or turning a hue never changes how bright a colour looks.

04 · VESAI ENGINE

Per-scene tone curves

Every shot is measured and the expansion adapts to it: highlights, large bright areas, depth and shadows. VESAI's own tone curves, scene by scene.

// BUILT FOR BOTH

One click if you want it. Total control if you need it.

FOR ENTHUSIASTS & CREATORS

Turn HDR on. Press encode.

Studio VESAI Depth FILM 1000 nits is selected by default: real HDR depth without touching a slider
Ready presets: Depth FILM, Studio Depth, FILM Depth, FILM Bright (1000 / 1500 / 2000 nits), Standard, Film Classic and Reference BT.2408
New ISO presets with Specular isolation for 1000, 1500, 2000 and 4000-nit TVs: speculars shine, skies stay calm
Simple sliders that do what they say: peak brightness, highlights, depth, brightness, blacks, color
Live before/after preview, in real HDR when Windows HDR is on
Upscale your old DVDs and Blu-rays to 4K HDR and smooth them to 60 fps in the same pass

FOR PROFESSIONALS & STUDIOS

A real HDR grading window.

HDR Waveform in nits on the ST 2084 scale, RGB parade, frame peak / 99.9 % / average
CIE 1931 gamut scope against BT.709, P3-D65 and BT.2020, false colour and nit read-out
Tone curve on real HDR axes, mid-grey target in nits, black point, highlight limiter
Per-scene bright-area control with adjustable levels, logged scene by scene
Source EOTF (BT.1886, Rec.709-A, sRGB, 2.6), full / limited range, P3-D65 limit, ProRes 4444 XQ HDR
Profiles that save the whole grade for repeatable deliveries
HDR depth: SDR level pushes shadows and midtones down in PQ while the peak holds; HDR gain up to +3 stops
Nits picker and Mark brightest: measure any spot in real nits, export the frame with an HDR info bar
Highlight recovery, highlight softness, black zone and Oklab six-vector colour grading
Specular isolation: automatic pixel-level speculars vs large-area separation, Highlight ceiling and Specular peak up to 10,000 nits
Export HDR AVIF + SDR JPG of any frame for web before / after comparisons

// THE ADVANCED HDR WINDOW

See exactly what the encode will be

The preview is rendered by the same engine as the final encode. What you approve is what you deliver.

🖥

Real HDR Preview

True HDR inside the window with Windows HDR on, or tonemapped on SDR screens (BT.2390, BT.2446-A, false colour). Split, side by side, A/B flip, zoom and pan.

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HDR Scopes

Waveform and RGB parade in nits, plus a CIE 1931 gamut scope showing the SDR source and the HDR output.

💡

Highlight Control

Specular level, light zone, highlight roll-off, limiter and per-scene bright-area levels: shape the highlights the way a colourist would.

🌈

Wide Color, Safely

Gamut presets from Faithful to Animation, skin tone protection and shadow protection, so colour grows without oversaturated faces or blacks.

🎚

HDR Depth

SDR level pushes shadows and midtones deeper in PQ while the brightest lights keep the peak. HDR gain sets the overall brightness, up to +3 stops.

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Nits Picker

Click any spot to read its real HDR brightness in nits, or mark the frame's brightest lights automatically. Export the frame with a full HDR info bar.

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Oklab Colour Grading

Six-vector hue and saturation plus gamut expansion in Oklab: push colour without changing how bright it looks or drifting its hue.

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HDR AVIF Export

Save any frame as a real HDR10 AVIF plus the matching SDR JPG, ready for before / after comparisons on your website.

// THE SOFTWARE, SCREEN BY SCREEN

Every tool, on screen

Real screenshots from VESAI 2.3. Click any image to see it full size.

Live preview, rendered by the encode engine

Real HDR inside the window with Windows HDR on, tonemapped on SDR screens. What you approve is what you deliver.

VESAI Split view — **Split view**SDR original and HDR on the same frame, drag the divider.

VESAI Side by side — **Side by side**Both versions next to each other, zoom and pan in sync.

VESAI False colour in nits — **False colour in nits**See exactly which areas reach which brightness.

VESAI SDR views — **SDR views**BT.2390, BT.2446-A, filmic and more for checking on SDR screens.

VESAI Timeline with thumbnails — **Timeline with thumbnails**Hover the timeline to find any moment of the film.

HDR scopes and the tone curve

Measure the master like a colourist: brightness in real nits on the ST 2084 scale, colour against BT.709, P3 and BT.2020.

VESAI HDR waveform in nits — **HDR waveform in nits**Luminance and RGB parade on the PQ scale, frame peak / 99.9 % / average.

VESAI CIE 1931 gamut scope — **CIE 1931 gamut scope**SDR source and HDR output against BT.709, P3-D65 and BT.2020.

VESAI Tone curve on real HDR axes — **Tone curve on real HDR axes**SDR input to output nits, with drag points and live read-out.

Nits picker and HDR export

Click any spot to read its real HDR brightness, mark the brightest lights automatically, and export the frame with every measurement.

VESAI Nits picker — **Nits picker**Numbered marks with nits, % of peak, PQ code, SDR level and gamut.

VESAI Mark brightest — **Mark brightest**The frame's brightest lights found and measured in one click.

VESAI Export image with HDR info — **Export image with HDR info**Preset, tone model, frame peak, FALL, colour range and every marked spot.

A full HDR grading window

Every part of the conversion is yours to shape: depth, highlights, blacks and colour.

VESAI Sliders — **Sliders**The main HDR sliders and ITM presets, linked with the main window.

VESAI Expansion — **Expansion**Tone model, SDR level (HDR depth), HDR gain, source EOTF and scene white analysis.

VESAI VESAI Full PQ Tone — **VESAI Full PQ Tone**SDR to the full PQ range with a virtual NPL for even more depth.

VESAI Highlights & Detail — **Highlights & Detail**Highlight recovery, softness, mid-grey target, limiter, shadow detail and black zone.

VESAI Curve & Gamut — **Curve & Gamut**Gamut presets, gamut expansion and skin and shadow protection.

VESAI Colour — **Colour**Oklab colour science and six-vector hue and saturation.

One click from the main window

Pick an ITM preset or a Fast Preset and encode. The default gives real HDR depth without touching a slider.

VESAI HDR settings and ITM presets — **HDR settings and ITM presets**Studio VESAI Depth FILM 1000 nits by default, with FILM Bright up to 2000 nits.

VESAI Fast Presets — **Fast Presets**Upscaling, HDR, Dolby Vision and encoding in one pick.

// ONE PASS. EVERYTHING.

HDR + Upscaling + Interpolation, together

🎨

HDR10 Mastering

New HDR core with VESAI Studio Tone, scene-by-scene analysis and measured metadata. Up to 5-10x faster in 2.3.

⚡

AI Upscaling to 12K

50+ models, TensorRT + DirectML acceleration on NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPUs, tuned for RTX 50-series.

🎞

Frame Interpolation

60/120fps and up to 960fps slow motion. Scene-cut protection means no morphing across cuts, and 60 fps is exact with audio in sync.

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Broadcast Codecs

ProRes 4444 XQ HDR, HEVC with HDR10 metadata, AV1, and 5.1/7.1 audio upmix. ProRes sources decoded frame-exact.

OUTPUT

HDR10 · PQ (ST 2084 / BT.2100) · BT.2020 container · optional P3-D65 limit · 10-bit

METADATA

Mastering display + MaxCLL / MaxFALL measured from the encoded result (CTA-861.3) · Dolby Vision workflow

TONE MODELS

VESAI Studio, Bright, Full PQ and Broadcast tones (automatic) · Reference BT.2408 (203-nit white) · Manual

COLOUR

Linear-light processing · hue-preserving HDR colour · Oklab perceptual grading · gamut expansion with skin and shadow protection

SOURCES

Full / limited range auto-detected · BT.1886, Rec.709-A, sRGB, 2.6 EOTF · ProRes / MOV / MP4 / MKV

ENCODERS

x265 [Direct] · Rigaya NVEncC · ProRes · AV1

// NATIVE HDR10 SHOWCASE

Pristine 10-bit AVIF masters

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DISPLAY REQUIREMENT: Turn on Windows HDR (or use an HDR-capable phone display) to see these in true HDR. On SDR screens they'll still look good — on HDR screens they'll look alive.

HDR10

// THE INDUSTRY PROBLEM NOBODY TALKS ABOUT

Fake HDR is everywhere. Real HDR is only here.

Most "SDR to HDR" tools boost brightness, crank contrast, and repackage SDR inside an HDR container. The dynamic range never changes.

😤 What most software does

Amplifies SDR brightness and calls it HDR
Colors stay trapped in BT.709 gamut
No real expansion of dynamic range
One filter on every frame — no scene analysis
Metadata copied from a slider, so TVs clip the highlights
No real-time preview: render first, pray later

✅ What VESAI does

Analyses the whole video and masters every scene on its own
Studio tone: natural skin and midtones, real specular highlights
Large bright areas held back automatically, glints keep the peak
Hue-preserving colour in a BT.2020 container, safe gamut expansion
MaxCLL / MaxFALL measured from the result + Dolby Vision workflow
Preview rendered by the encode engine, with HDR scopes

// HOW VESAI COMPARES

We compared the main SDR-to-HDR tools. None does all of this.

AI converters don't analyse the video: they convert each frame as it comes. Grading suites need a colourist. VESAI analyses the whole film and masters it, with the controls a professional expects.

Feature	VESAI 2.3.6	Topaz Video AI Hyperion	UniFab HDR Upconverter	NVIDIA RTX Video HDR	DaVinci Resolve
Whole-video scene analysis before converting	✓ Every shot	✗ No analysis	✗ No analysis	✗ No analysis	Manual, shot by shot
Automatic specular isolation (pixel level)	✓ Automatic	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Manual (qualifier + mask)
Choose the mastering peak (1000–4000 nits)	✓	Not documented	Not documented	✗	✓
MaxCLL / MaxFALL measured from the result	✓	Not documented	Not documented	✗ No file	Manual
Grading controls (curve, depth, highlights, six colour vectors, gamut)	✓ Full set	Exposure, saturation, highlight threshold	Colour space, format	Basic	✓ Full (manual)
Perceptual colour science (Oklab)	✓	Not documented	Not documented	Not documented	Via colour-managed workflow
Live HDR preview rendered by the encode engine	✓	Render a preview first	Not documented	Playback only	✓
HDR scopes in nits (waveform, gamut, nits picker)	✓	✗	Not documented	✗	✓
Exports a real HDR10 file	✓ + Dolby Vision workflow	✓	✓ HDR10 / Dolby Vision	✗ Playback only	✓
Works without a colourist	✓ Presets or full control	✓	✓	✓	✗

Based on each product's public documentation, October 2026. "Not documented" means we could not find the feature in that product's documentation. Topaz Video AI, UniFab, NVIDIA RTX Video HDR and DaVinci Resolve are trademarks of their respective owners; VESAI is not affiliated with them. Send us a correction and we'll update this table.

// FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE HDR

Already HDR? VESAI still improves it.

This one is subtler and it is not the main point — it is the same studio HDR master, re-graded by VESAI. Highlight roll-off, shadow separation and gamut coverage all improve without touching the original intent.

ORIGINAL HDR VESAI ENHANCED

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