What documented failure modes affect Dolby Vision HDR-to-SDR metadata, and which can be checked before delivery?

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S2, S1, S3 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Netflix's QC section and Dolby's guide document a short list of Dolby Vision failure modes: L1 values of 0,0,0 on non-black shots (analysis done on the wrong active area or unusable), shot boundaries in the metadata that do not match cuts (mid-shot SDR shifts), wrong canvas/image aspect ratio (translucent bars, lifted matte blacks), positive lift above 0.025 on letterboxed content, cross-vendor tool incompatibility, and stale first-generation CMv2.9-compat blocks (CMVersion 4 0 instead of 4 1). Both sources name the Dolby Metafier validator, plus Dolby CM Offline for rendering the SDR, as the pre-delivery check. Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S2, S1, S3 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S2: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S1: HTTP 200, bytes equal to the producer pin; S3: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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