PIXERA is hosting a one-day educational summit on HDR and digital color at its Santa Monica studio on Friday, July 24. Titled HDR & Digital Color in Realtime Video Workflows, the program is built around talks, live demonstrations, and a reference system that lets attendees examine how HDR images are measured and perceived in real-time video workflows.
PIXERA’s program runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT, with up to 60 in-room attendees and a YouTube livestream.
The educational sessions use an HDR reference system that includes an LED wall, cinema cameras, vectorscopes, and PIXERA software.
The speaker program includes Paul Debevec, Tim S. Kang, Conor McGill, Camon Crocker, Angel Banchs, Damein Futch, Michael Kohler, and Kris Murray.
An educational day about what HDR means in practice
The summit’s premise is straightforward: HDR is not only a delivery label or a number on a monitor specification. Its value depends on how an image is captured, displayed, measured, and ultimately seen. PIXERA frames the day around those questions, pairing presentations with live demonstrations so the discussion can stay connected to actual signal paths and viewing conditions.
For virtual production and real-time teams, that makes the subject practical. HDR workflows can involve the LED display, camera, color pipeline, monitoring, and final delivery format at once. A mismatch in any part of that chain can change the image that a crew sees or the result that reaches an audience.
A reference system for demonstrations, not a new stage build
The Santa Monica event will use an HDR reference system comprising an LED wall, cinema cameras, vectorscopes, and PIXERA at the center. It is a teaching and demonstration environment for the summit, not an announcement of a newly built production stage.
That distinction matters. The value of the setup is that presenters can discuss HDR with common visual and measurement references in the room. Vectorscopes can help make color information visible while the LED wall and cameras provide a real-time context for the conversation.
PIXERA’s involvement also places the session near the company’s existing real-time media-server work. VP Land previously covered how PIXERA turns an LED wall into a live interactive environment, where the software is used to coordinate media playback and display systems. The July program narrows the focus to HDR and color education.
A program shaped by imaging and color specialists
The agenda includes a session titled “Luminance in HDR: Relative or Absolute?” as well as a closing discussion, “HDR: Problems & Solutions in Creative Workflows.” Those titles point to the central tension in HDR work: technical measurements matter, but so do the viewing environment and the creative decisions that make an image readable.
Paul Debevec is among the scheduled speakers. He is chief research officer at Netflix’s Eyeline Studios and is known for work in image-based lighting and computer graphics. The rest of the program brings together practitioners working across color, imaging, and video technology, including Tim S. Kang, Conor McGill, Camon Crocker, Angel Banchs, Damein Futch, Michael Kohler, and Kris Murray.
The event follows another PIXERA education initiative that VP Land covered, PIXERA Base Camp, a media-server training program. This Santa Monica session is more specific: it is an opportunity to compare perspectives on HDR and digital color in a shared real-time setup.
Who can attend
The summit takes place at PIXERA’s Santa Monica studio, 1745 Berkeley Street, Studio 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT. In-room attendance is limited to 60 people, while the full day will also be available on YouTube. A happy hour at Santa Monica Brew Works follows the program.
For teams working with LED displays, cameras, and color-managed pipelines, the day is less about a single prescribed HDR workflow than about building a clearer basis for decisions. The useful outcome is a better understanding of where HDR behavior is being defined, how it can be observed, and which creative and technical choices need to be discussed together.
