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Originally Posted by Groucho2004
High Dynamic Range != High Bit Depth.
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Well said. High bit Depth is the ability to use more than 8-bits to represent finer color gradations, and (probably much more importantly) to present more correct processing results due to less errors in in-between operations.
HBD is basically a technical prerequisite of HDR. In addition to HBD, HDR allows to process color and brightness values outside of your limited display range. This usually means 1) using HBD to represent values outside of the valid displayable range, and 2) at the end some kind of tone mapping algorithm to bring it back down to valid pixel values. With HBD Avisynth+ can now do the first of part of HDR, for the second some kind of plugin to perform the tone mapping would be required.
About the naming: "Native" and "Stacked" are even less standardized than "HBD". AFAIK, "native" and "stacked" were invented in this community to give method names to an Avisynth-specific hack.
XP and crashes: Looking into it. I could run an MCTemporalDenoise script and some resizers before I uploaded.