[Openexr-devel] Blender + OpenEXR

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Florian & everyone,

Let me first say a big thanks for OpenEXR! It has proven to be very  
reliable and versatible addition to Blender, and one of the crucial  
success factors or the movie project I was working on during the past 9  
months.

Check out the sneak-peek on http://orange.blender.org

Apart from integrating openexr in our regular image in/out pipeline, it  
now also is being used  in the core of the render pipeline, taking care  
of saving tiles for all render-layers and passes in a single file. This  
then in the end is handed over the built-in compositor to do the fancy  
tricks with. Docs about this new pipeline and release is expected early  
may. It's going to be quite nice, at least for the open source  
community. :)

Our renderfarm (sponsored, 60+ dual cpu nodes), now is nicely spitting  
out the exr files. Very shortly we have to convert all of that to the  
format required by the HD digital projection in the cinema in  
Amsterdam.

My current information is that we have to convert this to Cineon, this  
is moved to a Quantel IQ HD/2K set, which will convert this to HDCam SR  
tape.

This is actually my first real experience with HD digital cinema... and  
I wondered if there ever was a follow up on the  
OpenEXRColorManagement.pdf you published. All our frames are rendered  
with just a 'linear' RGB color space now, which look pretty much OK on  
our monitors (like the 23" Apple Cinema displays), but that doesn't  
mean anything eh. :)

I would greatly appreciate some pointers to information or tips for how  
to achieve the best quality for current 10 bits/component HD projection  
systems. And maybe some hints for how to convert color best to current  
DVD video formats.

All the best,

-Ton-

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