This is exactly how we handle it, and I would guess pretty much anyone who has
moved away from rendering to multi-layer EXRs has come up with their own
workflow tools as well.
-Nathan
On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:26 AM, "Steve Newbold" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I presumed most facilities now automated this? So you get the best of both
> worlds. Sure its easier to bring in one file but its 'better' to bring in
> multiple sequences and have something behind the scenes present this to the
> artist as a single entity by shuffling and grouping. This then becomes a
> single click for the artist. Doesn't get easier than that!
>
> Steve
>
> n 30/04/13 09:44, Elias Ericsson Rydberg wrote:
>>
>> That might be true. The argument I hear from the compositors is that it's
>> easier to just bring in one file rather than 25. But when rendering, and
>> possibly re-rendering it makes more sense to render to multiple files.
>>
>> Even with EXR 2.0 there is still a need to re-render all passes, even if you
>> just needed to tweak the AO. But there is of course the possibility to
>> combine all the passes in nuke as a post process to have a multichannel EXR
>> workflow.
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/29 Nathan Rusch <[email protected]>
>> Don’t forget that multi-layer EXRs have higher read overhead than
>> single-layer files do, since layers are scanline-interleaved within the EXR
>> file itself.
>>
>> Until everyone starts using EXR 2.0 (including Nuke’s exrReader), separate
>> sequences is still the more efficient option.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>>
>> From: Elias Ericsson Rydberg
>> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 7:49 AM
>> To: Nuke user discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Trouble Importing my EXR with Layers
>>
>> What I gather from your post is that you have rendered to multiple EXR's
>> instead of one EXR with layers. This is actually my prefered way of doing it
>> as a multichannel EXR requires you to shuffle out the layers anyway (unless
>> you want to specify what layers to merge in every merge node eg.)
>>
>> If you are using V-Ray you pick exr (multichannel) as your output to get
>> multichannel exr.
>>
>> My prefered way is to just drag and drop the folder containing the rendered
>> images into nuke, nuke will automatically identify the sequences and you are
>> good to go.
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/29 Ron Ganbar <[email protected]>
>> Can you actually describe the problem?
>> What does 'S?' mean?
>>
>>
>>
>> Ron Ganbar
>> email: [email protected]
>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]
>> +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel]
>> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/
>>
>>
>> On 26 April 2013 07:40, seithr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey, Ive just rendered out all my layers in maya such as the ligths,
>> diffuse, specular etc etc, but when I try and bring them into nuke I have to
>> make a read file for each individual pass because for some reason it wont
>> import a single EXR sequence with layers.
>>
>> How do I get around this :S?
>>
>> any help is greatly apreciated!!
>>
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