and they don't want a dpx file?


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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Igor Majdandzic <[email protected]
> wrote:

> What I don't like about it is that mixing of standards. When I get an exr
> I like to assume a linear color space.
> And the dpx with 16bit should have enough data to work with.
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> Am 20.03.2017 5:59 nachm. schrieb Marten Blumen <[email protected]>:
>
> the good part is there is so much dynamic range in exrs that compressing
> to log probably makes no difference and would suit their pipeline.
>
> On 21 March 2017 at 05:41, Igor Majdandzic <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> It's for grading...
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> Am 20.03.2017 5:37 nachm. schrieb Randy Little <[email protected]>:
>
> Yeah do whatever they want.  exr in float linear is as much dynamic range
> as one can have.  making it log is because someone there doesn't really
> know what they are talking about from the CG side.
>
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>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Marten Blumen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Maybe they are referring to floating point being naturally log in it's
> precision, or, some effects look better if processed in log instead of
> linear, apart from that log is a colour space compression technique only
> afaik.
>
> On 21 March 2017 at 05:26, Igor Majdandzic <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> A company wants that we supply exrs in log because it would have more
> latitude to work with. Does that make sense? Using the curve for log brings
> everything in 0-1 range, so nothing would have been gained using exrs,
> right? I know both are containers, but for me linear exrs or dpx in log
> would be the way to go. Everything else seems weird and disorienting. Is
> there one argument for log exrs, that I just don't know about.
>
> Cheers,
> Igor
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