That sounds great!  Thank you so much!

Lydia

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 11:34 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's what I'm thinking as a solution:
>
> https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/2311
>
> So what you'd do with this feature is
>
>     oiiotool --metamerge file1.exr file2.exr --chappend --chname ... -o
> out.exr
>
> And instead of the output getting the metadata from just file1.exr
> (current behavior makes each op copy metadata from its first argument),
> this would "merge" the metadata from all inputs into the output.
>
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 8:48 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Python is the easy fix (where you can copy over the metadata "by hand"),
> but I'm also working on an oiiotool-based solution to this; stay tuned for
> a PR hopefully today if I an squeeze out some free time.
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Nathan R <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, it looks like what's missing is the Arnold metadata for the other
> AOVs besides RGBA.
>
> I'll defer to Larry on the possibilities there (I suspect a Python script
> may be the easiest way to go), but based on your channel names and need for
> this metadata, I'm guessing you're trying to create a merged EXR to pass to
> noice. For what it's worth, I've actually found that it's easier to just
> feed in separate files for all the AOVs, since noice will just decide
> what's available based on the metadata of all the input files.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On 8/6/2019 4:12 PM, Larry Gritz wrote:
>
> Is it missing the AOVs? (The channels, the pixels?)
>
> Or is it just not combining the *metadata* from all the source images into
> the output?
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:06 PM, Lydia Lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> They are exr's.  So I have the following aovs:  beauty,
> diffuse_albedo_noice, variance, N_noice, Z_noice:
>
> ./oiiotool beauty.0001.exr diffuse_albedo_noice.0001.exr --chappend
> -chname
> ,,,,"diffuse_albedo_noice.R","diffuse_albedo_noice.G","diffuse_albedo_noice.B"
> -o merged_bd.0001.exr
> ./oiiotool merged_bd.0001.exr variance.0001.exr --chappend --chname
> ,,,,,,,"variance.R","variance.G","variance.B","variance.A" -o
> merged_bdv.0001.exr
> ...<all the aovs>...
> ./oiiotool ...-o merged_all_aovs.0001.exr
>
> When I query the final merged image,
> ./oiiotool --info:verbose=1 merged_all_aovs.0001.exr
> maya_render.0001.exr:  960 x 540, 15 channel, half openexr channel list:
> R, G, B, A, Z_noice, N_noice.Y, N_noice.Z, N_noice.X,
> diffuse_albedo_noice.R, diffuse_albedo_noice.G, diffuse_albedo_noice.B,
> variance.R, variance.G, variance.B, variance.A
> arnold / AA_samples: 2
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / filter: "gaussian_filter"
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / lpe: 1
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / source: "RGBA"
> arnold / auto_transparency_depth: 10
> arnold / bounds_max_x: 959
> arnold / bounds_max_y: 539
> ...
> It is missing the aovs after beauty.
>
>
> Comparing it to the render from Maya
> maya_render.0001.exr:  960 x 540, 15 channel, half openexr channel list:
> R, G, B, A, Z_noice, N_noice.Y, N_noice.Z, N_noice.X,
> diffuse_albedo_noice.R, diffuse_albedo_noice.G, diffuse_albedo_noice.B,
> variance.R, variance.G, variance.B, variance.A
> arnold / AA_samples: 2
> arnold / aovs / diffuse_albedo_noice / filter: "gaussian_filter"
> arnold / aovs / diffuse_albedo_noice / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / diffuse_albedo_noice / lpe: 1
> arnold / aovs / diffuse_albedo_noice / source: "diffuse_albedo"
> arnold / aovs / N_noice / filter: "gaussian_filter"
> arnold / aovs / N_noice / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / N_noice / source: "N"
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / filter: "gaussian_filter"
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / lpe: 1
> arnold / aovs / RGBA / source: "RGBA"
> arnold / aovs / variance / filter: "variance_filter"
> arnold / aovs / variance / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / variance / lpe: 1
> arnold / aovs / variance / source: "RGBA"
> arnold / aovs / Z_noice / filter: "gaussian_filter"
> arnold / aovs / Z_noice / filter_width: 2
> arnold / aovs / Z_noice / source: "Z"
> arnold / auto_transparency_depth: 10
> arnold / bounds_max_x: 959
> arnold / bounds_max_y: 539
> ...
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 3:37 PM Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yes, the command you want is --chappend, which takes two images (say,
>> containing N channels and M channels) and combines them into a new image
>> with N+M channels.
>>
>> You said you tried this... can you show us a command line that shows
>> exactly what you tried?
>>
>> You may need a --chnames afterward to make the channel names make some
>> kind of sense.
>>
>> Also, what file format are you using?
>>
>> Seeing the exact command you tried will probably answer all of the
>> questions and then we'll know what to suggest.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 6, 2019, at 3:29 PM, Lydia Lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to merge AOVs with oiiotool?  I have a sequence rendered
>> from Maya with a bunch of separate passes.  I would like to merge them into
>> one sequence without having to render again using 'merge AOVs' option.  The
>> output should be a sequence of exr's with no subimages containing all the
>> channels the different aov's.
>>
>> I've tried using --siappendall but that returns one image with multiple
>> subimages.  The number of channels is the number of channels at the top
>> layer, not all the aovs.
>>
>> I've also tried --chappend and merge the images one at a time while
>> renaming the channels as I go.  This captured all the channels but did not
>> preserve the aov information.
>>
>> Can oiiotool or OpenImageIO merge multiple images into one while
>> preserving all the channels?  Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Lydia
>>
>>
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