LTX Closes The Gap Between AI & Production With 16-Bit HDR Output

How Asteria, Gear Productions and Magnopus helped shape LTX HDR and why it matters

AI development moves fast. New features and capabilities emerge constantly, and the pace of change is extraordinary. The progress made over the last few years alone has been remarkable, the quality of AI-generated content today is virtually unrecognizable compared to where the technology stood just three years ago. 

Yet despite this progress, generative imagery has fallen short of the standards required by professional production companies looking to incorporate it into their finishing and virtual production workflows. The reason comes down to a fundamental technical limitation: while generation quality has vastly improved, AI-generated content still outputs an 8-bit SDR image. 

Assets produced in traditional production workflows, by contrast, are rendered at high quality bit rate with High Dynamic Range, which gives post-production artists like 3D lighters, compositors, and colorists the flexibility to manipulate the image and arrive at the best creative outcome. This gap creates a visible disconnect between the two asset types and considerable downstream work in post-production to compensate.

LTX has partnered with three leading production studios to change this, absorbing feedback and requirements from each team to understand exactly where the technology was falling short and what it would take to meet the demands of a professional pipeline.

01# Case Study

Asteria: Making AI Cinematic

Asteria is a premium AI-powered film production studio pushing the boundaries of storytelling and cinematic experience. Sitting at the intersection of creativity and technology, Asteria puts creative control in the hands of filmmakers while leveraging AI to drive production efficiencies without compromising artistic vision. 

Asteria's Tribeca-selected short film ChikaBOOM! showcases this vision in action. The film blends hand-drawn 2D, CG, and generative animation to deliver a visually stunning final product that required flawless integration across every asset type. That integration, however, exposed a fundamental technical gap.

"In ChikaBOOM!, we're blending CG environments with a 2D character we style transfer into a volumetric, shapeshifting cloud moving through shadowy interiors, bright exteriors, a sunset explosion of color,” says Ben Michel, Co-Founder of Asteria Film Co. “The native 8-bit color depth of generative tools limited the latitude our compositors and colorists had to marry those elements together."

To bridge this gap, Asteria used LTX's HDR IC-LoRA to upscale the bit depth of their AI-generated 2D assets prior to compositing. Each frame was converted from 8-bit SDR to scene-linear 16 bit HDR EXR files; the same format as the traditionally rendered elements surrounding it. In the composite, the AI-generated animation became just as malleable as anything produced in a traditional pipeline with the ability to be deftly integrated into the scene.

“LTX's HDR IC-LoRA gives our compositors and colorists the latitude to truly blend these elements rather than just stack them. We're applying it across our generative animation and augmented crowds, and the line between what's generated and what's traditionally rendered disappears.”

ChikaBOOM! is not just a short film, it’s technical proof that AI-generated content can sit alongside traditionally rendered assets in a professional CG workflow, and a testament of what creative and technical teams can achieve together.

Asteria is an AI film production studio building ethical, artist-driven cinema. Their short ChikaBOOM! was selected for Tribeca 2026.

02# Case Study

Gear Productions: Show Us Where it Breaks

Gear Productions is an innovative digital creation studio crafting content for a wide range of clients spanning marketing and design to film and television. Their pipeline is built on a variety of DCCs that demand high quality imagery, a non-negotiable for their clientele. 

Generative AI has proven to be a powerful tool in their workflow, particularly for product visualization, but the native 8-bit SDR output has prevented it from crossing over into final deliverables. The quality simply could not meet the standards of a professional post finishing pipeline.

"When editing AI-generated shots, the final edit always looks off, different contrast, values, color balance from shot to shot.” says Mohamed Oumoumad, CTO, Gear Productions.  “ We try to unify it in post, but 8-bit SDR leaves almost no latitude for color correction."

This is where LTX comes in. Gear began working closely with our research team approximately one year ago, entering into deep technical conversations about the challenges they faced with image output. The Gear team articulated exactly where outputs were breaking down and specified the industry standards required for final deliverables. LTX’s research team responded with questions, then test sequences. Each round, Gear ran the sequences through their pipeline and reported back on what worked and what did not, flagging issues down to the pixel level. After many iterations and close collaboration between both teams, we arrived at a solution; an IC-LoRA checkpoint on LTX-2.3 that generates 16-bit HDR images in an EXR file format.  

When it was time to stress test the EXRs in a real production environment Oumoumad took them into DaVinci Resolve

“When I first saw we could truly push colors that far with LTX, I loaded its EXR sequence in DaVinci Resolve and started playing with the color wheels. It was amazing to see I could push colors as extreme as we usually do with rendered or raw footage. That means we can now edit LTX-generated shots alongside everything else in the pipeline, and just with that, the line blurs between what's generated and what's filmed or rendered.” 

Gear Productions is now using LTX-generated footage in production, not as reference material, but as a final deliverable.

Gear Productions is a digital creation studio working across broadcast, film, and virtual production.

03# Case Study

Magnopus: Immersing the Audience

Magnopus specializes in immersive storytelling, creating worlds where audiences lose themselves in the narrative and become part of the story itself. Building experiences like these demands not only deep artistry but rigorous technical integration and high-quality output to fully leverage the hardware technologies that bring these worlds to life. Magnopus operates at the cutting edge of this space, crafting immersive experiences for brands like Amazon MGM Studios, Epic Games, and Sony. 

This type of multi-media world-building demands a high level of output quality. While the teams at Magnopus fully embrace generative AI, the natively-generated outputs have  historically fallen short of the standards required by high fidelity display environments like LED walls. 

The result is a visible disconnect between the generated imagery and the worlds they are building; requiring post-production refinement before it is ready for the high quality experiences Magnopus is known for.

LTX's HDR IC-LoRA solves this problem directly, enabling Magnopus to upscale the bit depth and dynamic range of their AI-generated assets prior to integration with the rest of their production workflows. Using the HDR IC LoRA, each frame is converted from 8-bit SDR to scene-linear 16 bit HDR EXR files, creating the ability to blend seamlessly into the worlds that were captured on a camera or built with traditional VFX workflows. The result is professional-grade AI-generated imagery that can stand up to the demands of high fidelity display environments like LED walls that integrate alongside traditionally created assets.

For Rudy Grossman, Director of Generative AI at Magnopus, this development was what production professionals have been waiting for. 

"The industry has long needed a bridge between generative AI and professional finishing standards. By moving past 8-bit SDR, we’ve eliminated the technical gap that kept AI assets from being used on high-fidelity displays and within complex spatial experiences. We’re no longer compromising on bit depth; we’re finally getting the dynamic range required for cinematic immersion in XR and virtual production. In the past, AI-generated content was a black box; you couldn't relight it or grade it without the image falling apart. Now, these assets behave like the real world, carrying the dynamic range needed to sit alongside traditionally captured elements. This gives our teams a professional-grade toolkit to integrate generative AI into their creative process."

Magnopus plans to integrate LTX’s HDR generation broadly across their pipeline for virtual production volume, film and television, interactive experiences, and real-time gaming via Nodey – a web-based workspace that creates a unified, secure experience for Generative AI creation.

What we built is a solution that works across professional finishing pipelines in multiple contexts. Read more at our blog

Magnopus is an Oscar-winning experience company that fuses technology with creativity to define "what’s next" for a global audience.

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