How to find HDR content on YouTube

High Dynamic Range (HDR) is a video format with an expanded contrast range that makes video quality better, colors more accurate and vivid than non-HDR (Standard Dynamic Range - SDR) videos.

HDR videos have been around for a long time, but they only became popular and were supported by many devices when popular 4K TVs and Blu-ray 4K UHDs. But not a video recorded in 4K resolution, it is HDR video. So the quality and free videos HDR appear quite little on YouTube.

So how to find HDR content on YouTube?

To search for free HDR content on YouTube, the best way is to search for keywords and include the terms "HDR", "4K HDR", "4K", or "UHD".

But not all videos with HDR video recording titles are HDR. To check if a video is HDR, it is best to use an HDR-enabled device to open the video, in the "quality" options section. In the list of resolution formats and number of frames per second (FPS), if there is HDR, the video is HDR.

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Some popular HDR specialized channels

Jacob and Katie Schwarz

One of the best places you can find natural HDR videos and landscapes is the YouTube channel of two traveling documentary filmmakers Jacob and Katie Schwarz. Their videos are extremely professional and high quality recorded and edited, attracting millions of views.

Some beautiful HDR videos of this duo.

War Dance

Peru

Yellow Stone

You can access their YouTube channel under the link below to watch more HDR videos.

Jacob + Katie Schwarz

In addition, you can also watch HDR videos about the nature and landscape of some of the following authors:

Dustin Farrell

Dustin Farrell's spectacular scene of thunder was recorded. In the midst of the storm, colorful flashes and light that ripped out the gray sky showed the wide and subtle contrast of HDR.

Abandon Visuals

Misty hills, close-up of moss patches and colorful plants and sunshine at sunset, all created a beautiful video.

Nature Relaxation

The beautiful country of Norway in a 1-hour video filmed from the drone will surely satisfy you.

Samsung HDR Landscape

This Samsung HDR video aggregates many excellent time-lapse videos filmed in many parts of the world.

Short videos, documentaries and original cartoons in HDR format

Cosmos Laundromat

Created with Blender's free rendering software, this ultra-realistic animation clip has not only great HDR effects but also excellent animation quality.

"The Legend of Solorzano"

This short documentary film is about Eric Solorzano, a world famous Volkswagon Bug racer, on the Baja 1000 created by the studio Abandon Visuals. Through the HDR effect, the desert scenery in the movie shows up like a real-life Mad Max movie scene.

Studio Abandon Visuals

"Turning Point"

In the detective / psychological / science fiction category, Joe Penna, the film's director, used the effect of reducing the color saturation of the background in the background, making the subject's colors more vivid.

Joe Penna

LG HDR movie ads

This video ad for LG's 4K UHD TV series is one of the best HDR video examples on YouTube posted by YouTube 4K 4K channel.

YouTube channel 4K HDR

Movies and TV

You can access YouTube channels like 4K HDR Media and 4K Movie Clips . to watch clips taken from movies and TV shows in 4K HDR format.

4K HDR Media
4K Movie Clips

Games

Thanks to high-end PC graphics cards, Xbox One X, or Play Station 4 Pro, gamers can return to the currently playing game with HDR quality and upload to YouTube. Therefore, it is not difficult to find quality HDR gameplay videos on YouTube.

Forza Horizon 4, Techman Video Game Archive

Marvel's Spider-Man on Play Station 4, RajmanGamingHD

Uncharted 4, TechNoZenGaming

Final Fantasy XV, Digital Foundry

Series on YouTube Red Premium

If you have registered YouTube Red or Google Play Music, you can watch premium content in HDR format. One of them is Ultimate Expediation, an original YouTube series.

This show is set in Mt. Tocllaraju, a 6,000 meter high mountain in Peru. In the show you will see many TV stars and famous individuals on the Internet like Jukka Hilden, Steve-O and SSSniperWolf . hanging on the Peruvian Andes with scenes of the world's most majestic mountains in HDR quality.

The video on the trailer season 1 of the series, to see the whole series you can access the link below.