**Unlocking Full Screen HDR with Vivid**

If you're looking to take your Mac's display to the next level, installing Vivid may be just what you need. Vivid is a free application that allows you to control your Mac's brightness levels like never before. With Vivid, you can access advanced settings that are not available through traditional brightness controls.

Using Vivid, you can adjust the brightness of your display so that if you use your on keyboard brightness keys, you can go ahead and go from your half brightness all the way up to your normal top brightness. However, if you go past that, keep pressing that up button and an additional slider will appear underneath of that icon, allowing you to even brighter. This means you can see what it is with your max brightness as well as what the previous max brightness was.

**Additional Options**

If you go to Vivid in your menu bar, you can disable Vivid if you want to turn it off or quit it completely. That's also an option, but you can toggle on split screen so that you can see it for yourself even after you've purchased the full license. You can also activate your license and show the dock icon as well as go into preferences. In preferences, there are a couple of experimental options available.

For instance, there are occasional times with this brightness all the way up that there can be graphical issues such as white overlays and stuff like that. There are options for being able to prevent these white overlays and starting this at login so enable those if you need to.

**How Vivid Works**

Vivid is technically a full screen application and they're using Apple's native Metal API to create an HDR application that runs in full screen mode when running at HDR, it will up the brightness to a thousand nits. This means that if you are watching a movie or something and there's an explosion on screen, that is when the brightness will increase for that moment up to a thousand nits and then back down to your typical brightness.

That's HDR content they are taking that HDR content and making it happen all the time full screen on your Mac which brings us to which machines are supported. Because this is using HDR like a trick to get around that, HDR only works in machines that support HDR. Apple's 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros as well as Apple's Pro Display XDR are the only ones that meet this requirement. This will not work with older machines, cheaper machines or even Apple's new Studio Display. The Studio Display does not support HDR so it won't work with the Vivid application.

**Safety Concerns**

Vivid gives us a few use cases of why it says Vivid is okay to run on your Mac. The developers say they are doing nothing that your Mac was not intended to do and they put forth a very plausible use case of why it's okay. That is a professional video or photo editor who is editing a video in HDR for 8 to 12 hours a day. That's a real use case with that brightness turned all the way up.

However, i still cannot help but think that running your display at this maximum brightness for extended periods of time will somehow have some sort of impact on the longevity and lifespan of your device. Even Vivid developers themselves say that they cannot be held liable should something happen to your machine because it's running at this peak brightness for longer.

**Battery Life and Heat**

Running your right-hand side your screen at this brightness you're going to have a much lower battery life. It has to pump out a lot more power to brighten that display which means your battery life is going to take a substantial hit. It'll also run your machine a bit hotter, between five and ten percent according to Vivid's developers and if your machine does get too hot Mac OS will take precautions and lower the brightness on its own so that nothing happens to your machine in that regard still it's the longevity of the device that i am most worried about especially with battery life and how that could impact it.

**Conclusion**

Trying Vivid on your machine is an option. There is a link down below on where to download the application, there is a free version that will run in split screen mode or you can buy a full license for i believe 15 euros. Let me know if you think this is safe or if you would try it down below in the comments or on Twitter at andrew underscore osu otherwise stay tuned i got a whole lot more videos coming your way.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhere's how you can double the maximum brightness on your macbook pro or pro display xdr welcome everybody to apple insider it is andrew here and you can find me on twitter at andrew underscore osu if you haven't done so already i implore you to please go ahead and subscribe and smash on that notification icon so you don't miss any of my videos this video is dedicated to an easy way to double the brightness on either your macbook pro or the pro display xdr so let's break it down i'm going to show you how to do it how it works and whether or not is actually safe to use on your machine so let's go ahead and dive into all of this to double the brightness of your display we need to use a quick third-party application that's free to try for yourself but then we'll require a purchase to unlock the full functionality the app itself is called vivid and there is a link for it down below if you guys do want to try this out so i've gone ahead and downloaded the application and moved it into my applications folder so let's launch vivid so first it warns me this is an app that i've downloaded from the internet and yes in this case i'm going to go ahead and open it so now i'll get this little walkthrough that explains what we're looking at basically it's going to take over your display and run a full screen application and effectively double the maximum brightness one neat feature is the fact that this is able to override your screen's maximum brightness so you can still use your existing function keys to increase the brightness of your display so if i use my on keyboard brightness keys i can go ahead and go from my half brightness all the way up to my normal top brightness but if you go past that keep pressing that up button you'll see an additional slider appear underneath of that icon and lets me go even brighter so i can see what it is with my max brightness as well as what the previous max brightness was but really that's it install vivid now you can use your brightness keys to go beyond the typical max brightness for your display some additional options that you can configure if you go to vivid in your menu bar you can disable vivid if you want to turn it off or quit it completely that's also an option but you can toggle on split screen so you can see it for yourself even after you've purchased the full license you can activate your license show the dock icon as well as go into preferences in preferences there are a couple experimental options so there are occasional times with this brightness all the way up that there can be graphical issues not something that's hurting your machine but graphical issues that have like white overlays and stuff like that and there are options for being able to prevent white overlay and starting this at login so enable those if you need to so how does vivid work what machines are supported and is this actually safe to use on your machine well let's start with how it works vivid is technically a full screen application and they're using apple's native metal api to create an hdr application that runs it full screen when running at hdr it'll up that brightness to a thousand nits so think if you are watching a movie or something and there's an explosion on screen and that is when the brace will increase for that moment up to a thousand nits and then back down to your typical brightness that's hdr content they are taking that hdr content and making it happen all the time full screen on your mac which brings us to which machines are supported because this is using hdr like a trick to get around that hdr it only works in machines that support hdr in that case it apples 14 and 16 inch macbook pros those most recent versions as well as apple's pro display xdr this will not work with older machines cheaper machines or even apple's new studio display the studio display does not support hdr so it won't work with the vivid application that brings me to whether or not it's actually safe to run vivid now vivid gives us a few use cases of why it says vivid is okay to run on your mac the developers say they are doing nothing that your mac was not intended to do and they put forth a very plausible use case of why it's okay and that is a professional video or photo editor who is editing a video in hdr for 8 to 12 hours a day that's a real use case with that brightness turned all the way up but at the same time i can't help but think that running your display at this maximum brightness for extended period of time will somehow have some sort of impact of the longevity and the lifespan of your device even vivid developers itself say that they cannot be held liable should something happen to your machine because it's running at this peak brightness for longer and you have to take into account the other ramifications when you're running your right your screen at this brightness you're going to have a much lower battery life it has to pump out a lot more power to brighten that display which means your battery life is going to take a substantial hit it'll also run your machine a bit hotter between five and ten percent according to vivid's developers and if your machine does get too hot mac os will take precautions and lower the brightness on its own so that nothing happens to your machine in that regard still it's the longevity of the device that i am most worried about especially with battery life and how that could impact it trying to play this fare vivid's developers do point to a statement from apple regarding the hdr features of its machines apple says that its hdr machines can sustain 1 000 nits of brightness across the full screen this means that a pro can edit an hdr photograph or video with the entire frame at 1000 minutes of brightness indefinitely so if we read into that apple seems to claim that you can do this safely but i would still take all that with a grain of salt and protect the machines that you purchased so what do you think would you try vivid on your machine if you would like to give it a try there is a link down below on where to download the application there is a free version that will run in split screen mode or you can buy a full license for i believe 15 euros let me know if you think this is safe or if you would try it down below in the comments or on twitter at andrew underscore osu otherwise stay tuned i got a whole lot more videos coming your way youhere's how you can double the maximum brightness on your macbook pro or pro display xdr welcome everybody to apple insider it is andrew here and you can find me on twitter at andrew underscore osu if you haven't done so already i implore you to please go ahead and subscribe and smash on that notification icon so you don't miss any of my videos this video is dedicated to an easy way to double the brightness on either your macbook pro or the pro display xdr so let's break it down i'm going to show you how to do it how it works and whether or not is actually safe to use on your machine so let's go ahead and dive into all of this to double the brightness of your display we need to use a quick third-party application that's free to try for yourself but then we'll require a purchase to unlock the full functionality the app itself is called vivid and there is a link for it down below if you guys do want to try this out so i've gone ahead and downloaded the application and moved it into my applications folder so let's launch vivid so first it warns me this is an app that i've downloaded from the internet and yes in this case i'm going to go ahead and open it so now i'll get this little walkthrough that explains what we're looking at basically it's going to take over your display and run a full screen application and effectively double the maximum brightness one neat feature is the fact that this is able to override your screen's maximum brightness so you can still use your existing function keys to increase the brightness of your display so if i use my on keyboard brightness keys i can go ahead and go from my half brightness all the way up to my normal top brightness but if you go past that keep pressing that up button you'll see an additional slider appear underneath of that icon and lets me go even brighter so i can see what it is with my max brightness as well as what the previous max brightness was but really that's it install vivid now you can use your brightness keys to go beyond the typical max brightness for your display some additional options that you can configure if you go to vivid in your menu bar you can disable vivid if you want to turn it off or quit it completely that's also an option but you can toggle on split screen so you can see it for yourself even after you've purchased the full license you can activate your license show the dock icon as well as go into preferences in preferences there are a couple experimental options so there are occasional times with this brightness all the way up that there can be graphical issues not something that's hurting your machine but graphical issues that have like white overlays and stuff like that and there are options for being able to prevent white overlay and starting this at login so enable those if you need to so how does vivid work what machines are supported and is this actually safe to use on your machine well let's start with how it works vivid is technically a full screen application and they're using apple's native metal api to create an hdr application that runs it full screen when running at hdr it'll up that brightness to a thousand nits so think if you are watching a movie or something and there's an explosion on screen and that is when the brace will increase for that moment up to a thousand nits and then back down to your typical brightness that's hdr content they are taking that hdr content and making it happen all the time full screen on your mac which brings us to which machines are supported because this is using hdr like a trick to get around that hdr it only works in machines that support hdr in that case it apples 14 and 16 inch macbook pros those most recent versions as well as apple's pro display xdr this will not work with older machines cheaper machines or even apple's new studio display the studio display does not support hdr so it won't work with the vivid application that brings me to whether or not it's actually safe to run vivid now vivid gives us a few use cases of why it says vivid is okay to run on your mac the developers say they are doing nothing that your mac was not intended to do and they put forth a very plausible use case of why it's okay and that is a professional video or photo editor who is editing a video in hdr for 8 to 12 hours a day that's a real use case with that brightness turned all the way up but at the same time i can't help but think that running your display at this maximum brightness for extended period of time will somehow have some sort of impact of the longevity and the lifespan of your device even vivid developers itself say that they cannot be held liable should something happen to your machine because it's running at this peak brightness for longer and you have to take into account the other ramifications when you're running your right your screen at this brightness you're going to have a much lower battery life it has to pump out a lot more power to brighten that display which means your battery life is going to take a substantial hit it'll also run your machine a bit hotter between five and ten percent according to vivid's developers and if your machine does get too hot mac os will take precautions and lower the brightness on its own so that nothing happens to your machine in that regard still it's the longevity of the device that i am most worried about especially with battery life and how that could impact it trying to play this fare vivid's developers do point to a statement from apple regarding the hdr features of its machines apple says that its hdr machines can sustain 1 000 nits of brightness across the full screen this means that a pro can edit an hdr photograph or video with the entire frame at 1000 minutes of brightness indefinitely so if we read into that apple seems to claim that you can do this safely but i would still take all that with a grain of salt and protect the machines that you purchased so what do you think would you try vivid on your machine if you would like to give it a try there is a link down below on where to download the application there is a free version that will run in split screen mode or you can buy a full license for i believe 15 euros let me know if you think this is safe or if you would try it down below in the comments or on twitter at andrew underscore osu otherwise stay tuned i got a whole lot more videos coming your way you\n"