What’s the best way to create an HDR video without having to process each individual frame? By using 2 cameras at the same time, each with different exposures. Check out the video of this innovative process, after the jump.

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II’s from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

So how does it work exactly?

Soviet Montage – “Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above.”

Two camera recordings: One Underexposed, the other, Overexposed

We hope this will be a common feature in a few years time. The iPhone 4 already has the ability to take HDR photos by combining multiple exposures into a single HDR image, so hopefully the camera manufacturers will follow suit.

Read more at about the HDR Video at http://www.sovietmontage.com/