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BRINGING HDR VIDEO TO REELS

engineering.fb.com10 min read

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Video quality used to diminish when uploaded to Facebook/Instagram. This is no longer the case. This article walks through how the video infrastructure team at Meta brought HDR video to Reels at scale. Some challenges included dealing with different device capabilities and image formats and accurate tone mapping.