Looking to take your video recording game to the next level? Here is how to Record HDR video on Android phone and improve the results of your videos.
To begin this video enhancement journey you would obviously need to have good quality camera sensors on your phone.
The chances are that your current Android phone you’re holding right now lets you record video in HDR, and here’s how to get it done.
Record HDR video on Android
HDR video takes things up a notch over the standard dynamic range by offering a wider range of colors and more detail in both highlights and shadows.
HDR increases luminance from 100 cd/m2 to over 1,000 cd/m2, so think of it as having 10x or more range to work with. The wider gamut in both color and brightness enables a broader scope of how everything appears.
The brightest and darkest portions should look more detailed, though the deepest shadows can also have more contrast depending on where you apply focus when shooting.
Google added support for HDR video recording in its Camera2 API in 2022, allowing third-party apps to access the API to record HDR video with Android 13.
Phones offering HDR recording will also automatically encode it in H.265, or HEVC for High Efficiency Video Coding.
It’s a more efficient video compression codec than the standard H.264 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) without losing any quality. The only problem is not all devices and services necessarily support that codec
Once you head over to your phone’s camera app try toggling on the HDR mode. Dolby Vision features on these phones may limit the frame rate to 30fps, though newer models are pushing beyond that to 60fps.