If I'm not misinformed you should be able to mix 16 and 32 bit in one single 
exr. However I think your rgb layer have to be 32 for this to work. At least 
this is my experience with Arnold for XSI.

8 maj 2013 kl. 20:37 skrev Piotr Stanczyk <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> OpenEXR 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 do not differ in that respect. v1.6.1 could store 
> channels of different types in the file. How applications treat them is quite 
> another matter though ... 
> 
> Piotr
> 
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [[email protected]] on behalf of Michael Garrett 
> [[email protected]]
> Sent: 08 May 2013 11:28
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Re: EXR file size Mantra vs Nuke re-render
> 
> I just had another look in exrheader and indeed, a bunch of these channels 
> are 32-bit, although the beauty is 16 bit and Nuke sees the file as 16 bit in 
> the metadata. 
> 
> Would this be because Houdini is using OpenEXR 1.7, which is backward 
> compatible? As far as I knew, 1.6.1 was only able to store a single data type 
> across all channels. I'm interested to know, but at least I'm aware of the 
> issue now.
> 
> Thanks for bringing this to my attention by the way!
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 May 2013 11:22, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Interesting...I had thought that the ability to have a 32 bit channel or 
>> layer in an otherwise 16 bit half float file was something you could only do 
>> with OpenEXR 1.7.
>> 
>> I know it's not best practice to have multichannel exr's right now, I'll 
>> look into the possibility of getting them broken out as well.
>> 
>> I will double check with the lighter as to what her output settings are, but 
>> both the metadata tag and exrheader are telling me it's zip1 scanline ((aka 
>> exr compression = 2).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8 May 2013 00:00, marty b <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Good call John.
>>> 
>>> Mantra render with 16bit 'C' & 32bit extra planes = 2.5Mb
>>> Mantra render with 16bit 'C' & 16bit extra planes = 1Mb
>>> 
>>> Re-render in Nuke at 16bit = 760KB
>>> 
>>> In Mantra just set the Quantize of the Extra Image Planes to 16bit float 
>>> from 32bit float.
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