Thalia® Live HD/R
Tonemapped HDR video on the iPhone®

Watch the Thalia Live 2.0 Demo Video–Shot Handheld with our Amazing Stabilization!

Tonemapped video in true HDR shot on nothing but an iPhone 6S.

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We’re more than a little proud of what we did years ago when for most computational videography on cellphones was just a distant vision in the future, so we're leaving our old demo videos up, even though with the better cameras on the latest phoens our app will, of course, make even greater videos. This is where it started, and it’s still the world’s most advanced real-time HDR video tonemapping on a phone!

This video was shot in 2015 in Illinois on the iPhone 6S using Thalia Live HD/R. Postprocessing was done in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Watch the Original Demo Video!

Tonemapped video in true HDR shot on nothing but an iPhone 6.

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This video was shot in 2014 in Illinois on the iPhone 6 using Thalia Live HD/R. Postprocessing was done in Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. This early video shows some skipped frames, which has been fixed since. Taking the processing capability of the phone to its extreme unfortunately requires some amount of user feedback and field experience before we hit exactly the right balance between quality and speed for a given phone generation.

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How Does It Work?

The patented HD/R technology in Thalia Live HD/R uses the iPhone’s camera to obtain HDR pictures for each video frame and works magic (technical term: tonemapping) to turn them into a video stream reflecting the scene’s dynamic range. The tonemapping is necessary because normal displays cannot show a very high dynamic range, so tonemapping will make the bright parts darker and the dark parts brighter while preserving or enhancing local contrast. The magic in our proprietary image-processing technology:

US Patents 9,955,084, 10,225,485, 10,277,771. Patents pending.

For even more dynamic range expansion in time-lapse videos or if you don't have at least an iPhone 6, try out the sister app Thalia Lapse HD/R.

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