Re: [Openexr-user] multi-channel EXRs and Shake

[Rod Bogart]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Erik Winquist wrote:

> hey, i'm curious about Shake's ability (or lack thereof) for dealing 
> with multi-channel (RGBA+) EXR images.
> 
> Is it possible with the current Shake plugin and a custom Reorder node? 
>    Is it possible with a custom file reader?   Is it possible at all?
> 
> Shake's unfortunate RGBAZ limitation leads me to believe that unless a 
> custom file reader re-routes specified extra channels to the RGBA 
> channels, they're going to get thrown away at the fileIn.
> 
> 
> ...and if this is the case, it pretty much makes creating multi-channel 
> renders pointless for a Shake-based pipeline.
> 
> 
> anyone have any answers?
> 
> erik

You know Apple, they don't say what they're planning.  However, the
recent questions (on openexr-devel) about multi-channel image APIs 
have been from one of the Shake developers.  So they must be asking 
the same questions...

RGB