Re: DWA compression

Brendan Bolles <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.devel
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On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Karl Rasche wrote:

> I'd try starting at 85, and play around to see what an acceptable level might be for the situation at hand. If the frame isn't going to undergo heavy magnification, you might be able to push it higher. >200 might be find for vacation photos, but isn't going to be terribly useful in a production setting.


OK, this DWA compression seems pretty awesome, Karl.  Kudos!  I wrote up a blog post complete with demo movie here:

http://fnordware.blogspot.com/2014/08/dwa-compression-in-openexr-22.html


How do you guys use it in your pipeline at DreamWorks?


One thing I noticed is that it doesn't seem to apply lossy compression to anything other than RGB channels, is that right?  Also, what happens if you send it 32-bit float instead of our standard 16-bit?


Brendan
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