Re: Image Sequence Container

If possible use MXF.
I would expect academy iif to put openexr into mxf.
This requires SMPTE defining an essence container mapping for openexr.

Lars

At 6:04 PM -0700 5/18/11, Brendan Bolles wrote:
>Has anyone here ever experimented with ways to treat an image 
>sequence as a single entity?  Obviously sequences have plenty of 
>advantages, but there's also something to be said for monolithic 
>movie formats where there's one set of metadata for the entire clip, 
>and maybe even an audio track to go along with it.  Movies also 
>simplify things from the user's perspective.
>
>Has anyone tried to extend EXR into a kind of multi-frame movie 
>format?  PNG has the seldom-used MNG companion format that does 
>this.  Maybe an existing wrapper like MXF could be used?  I just 
>want it to be open source and float-friendly.
>
>On Mac OS X, certain file extensions like .xcodeproj automatically 
>turn a folder into a "package" so it looks like a single file.  I 
>could imagine using this along with maybe an XML file to come up 
>with a standard way to wrap image sequences with some more 
>intelligence.  And since you'd still have a sequence at the core, 
>you could still network render and do the other nice things we're 
>used to.
>
>
>Brendan
>
>
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