Premiere HDR without dedicated card on Window 11?

Currently, I can set to HDR by simply switching the Windows setting for my "reference" monitor to HDR. That triggers the monitor's HDR mode. And is recognized by PrPro, though you have to go to the Sequence and Scopes panels and set working properties to HDR.

And that isn't through any BM or AJA hardware.

Now ... my monitor only goes to around 350 nits, so bluntly, that ain't no real HDR. I'd never work that way. But I can 'force' HDR that way.

But as, if not more important ... most monitors and TVs have auto-controls that adjust contrast and scene levels, especially black & white points, during playback of HDR media. I don't know of any screen other than those flipping expensive full-on HDR reference monitors that doesn't.

And that is an issue if you're trying to adjust the luma/chroma of the sequence, as you don't know when the monitor is fudging things on you.

On the LG C1 and CX screens, you can go online and get a technician's remote for them, and from that turn off most of those features ... mostly sort of. Naturally, after doing so, you have to be careful you never just leave the thing on with a static HDR image up or you can damage the screen.

And you really need to run them from a BlackMagic or AJA LUT box, with a LUT you've made from Calman or Lightspace to be sure you're looking at "real" values.

It's one of the real pains of trying to work out with some HDR at this time. Anything that works correctly for video post work is the cost of a new car. The things that are more reasonable all come with massive caveats. I find this all very frustrating.

And yea, I've got friends with $20,000 to $32,000 in HDR monitors. But no way I could ever justify the expense.

There's the new Asus and Dell monitors for around $4-5K. But even with those, you still should have the LUT boxes feeding the monitors. Flipping expensive to do HDR yet.

Neil