Re: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

[Jason S]

  
  
How about EXR's ? I Haven't come across
  a pic sequence since Si3D lol
  
  8 bit can be fine for certain elements (like mattes), or as a last
  step not as "sources", but as "finals" for broadcast or for making
  compressed clips once all comp or any grading is done including
  introducing grain (while still in higher bit depth) to avoid
  banding once in 8 bit, which any digital display output (except
  for 10 bit displays) are still limited to. (whenever not destined
  to be printed directly to film) 
  
  And for that, Png's are quite commonly used because they're tiny
  (originally made for web), and despite being compressed remain
  "lossless", and fast to load.
  
  
  
  On 04/09/16 5:18, Olivier Jeannel wrote:


  Thank's guys ! I'll do some conversion of what I
already have, and will choose a mainstream format for the next
renders.
  Le 9 avr. 2016 04:41, "Ed Manning" 
a écrit :

  .pic is, I think, a deprecated "picture"
filetype in Mac-OS-world. So Quicktime or Preview thinks it
should be able to open it but fails. There once was a
Quicktime 7 extension someone made for .pic maybe, but I
doubt it's supported now.


to avoid confusion, everyone I know sends jpegs, or if
  image quality is critical, .png or .tiff. If the client is
  super Web-centric, maybe .gif


Of course, your client may be reviewing and making
  grading decisions about your 4K image on a smartphone in
  direct sunlight in a moving vehicle...


have you checked rray.de/xsi/
  ?
  
  
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 3:22 PM,
  Olivier Jeannel 
  wrote:
  
Hi guys,
  
  
  Is this possible to open on a Mac, in After
Effects, a .pic picture ?
  
  
  Not very aware of the mac universe here, and i
need to communicate with "them" :/
  
  
  Thanks ! :)
  
  


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Re: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

[Robert Kjettrup]

Im pretty sure there was another .pic format that was different than
Softimage .pic, and that is what is "deprecated" on OSX. As far as i
remember it was an indexed format like gif so max 256 colors. So having
.pic support and its expecting an palette-indexed image and getting a
sofimage .pic with 8bpc it will probably fail to show the image correctly.
I have always used .sgi instead of Softimage pic, mainly for 16bit
support... and nostalgic reasons :-D

Robert


2016-04-09 4:41 GMT+02:00 Ed Manning :

> .pic is, I think, a deprecated "picture" filetype in Mac-OS-world. So
> Quicktime or Preview thinks it should be able to open it but fails. There
> once was a Quicktime 7 extension someone made for .pic maybe, but I doubt
> it's supported now.
>
> to avoid confusion, everyone I know sends jpegs, or if image quality is
> critical, .png or .tiff. If the client is super Web-centric, maybe .gif
>
> Of course, your client may be reviewing and making grading decisions about
> your 4K image on a smartphone in direct sunlight in a moving vehicle...
>
> have you checked rray.de/xsi/ ?
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Olivier Jeannel 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Is this possible to open on a Mac, in After Effects, a .pic picture ?
>>
>> Not very aware of the mac universe here, and i need to communicate with
>> "them" :/
>>
>> Thanks ! :)
>>
>>
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Re: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

[peter_b]

not so aware of the mac universe nor after effects myself – but shouldn’t it 
work with the photoshop softimage .pic plugin – AE supports those no?
(here for instance: http://www.edharriss.com/xsi/tools/tools.htm – I see there 
is a mac version! )
I’ve used .pic a lot over the years, and usually compositors were fine with it. 
(shake, nuke, fusion)
But I’ve come to force myself not to use them anymore – and adding a precomp 
step for delivery – even if only for converting file format, naming and keeping 
renders separate from deliverables.

Lately - just when I thought that the bar couldn’t get any lower - I had a 
‘client’ unable to read a jpg, requesting to send a more universally compatible 
file format. I wanted to send an .exr but restrained myself.


From: Olivier Jeannel 
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 9:22 PM
To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com 
Subject: Semi OT Softimage pic pluggin for mac ?

Hi guys, 

Is this possible to open on a Mac, in After Effects, a .pic picture ?

Not very aware of the mac universe here, and i need to communicate with "them" 
:/

Thanks ! :)




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