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Fnord ProEXR
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The Stats
- Developer: Fnord
- Version: 1.3
- Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows
- Host Applications: Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac Universal Binary, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility, Microsoft Vista Compatibility
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Description
OpenEXR is visual effects industry-standard floating point file format and the best format to use when working with 32-bit HDR imagery in Photoshop and After Effects. However, Adobe's support for the format is minimal - only with ProEXR can digital artists finally access all the power available in OpenEXR.
OpenEXR can support multiple layers of imagery, but Photoshop can't read or save layered EXR files...unless you have ProEXR. Store all your layers in one file and read them into After Effects, Nuke, Shake, and Fusion. Or in one step save layers as individual files for programs that are less EXR savvy. ProEXR will also read all the image buffers created by modern 3D renderers and place each in its own Photoshop layer.
ProEXR lets you choose from all the compression options available in OpenEXR. Most EXR compression is lossless, but one of the most interesting options is a lossy method similar to JPEG, applied to the world of floating point. Using B44 compression and Luminance/Chroma sampling, HDR images can be crushed to a fraction of their uncompressed size, usually without visible artifacts, only in ProEXR.
Features
- Retention of EXR color space information.
- Support for both 32-bit and 16-bit floating point.
- Full control over alpha channel processing.
- Automatic EXR project set-up in After Effects.
- Built with the latest OpenEXR libraries.
- Free, open source After Effects plug-ins for working with OpenEXR files and 3D Channels.
OpenEXR
Included with the download of ProEXR is a collection of 4 free, open source plug-ins providing complete access to OpenEXR files in After Effects. Many EXR files feature extra channels beyond simple RGBA. In some cases they may include depth and velocity vector information, in other cases there may be entire render passes folded into a single EXR file. These plug-ins were created to open up After Effects to all the possibilities in OpenEXR.
First off, the native After Effects file module is replaced with an updated one that provides API access to all the channels in an EXR as well as extra compression options when rendering EXRs out of AE.
Then in your After Effects Comp, extra 3D Channel plug-ins are provided for pulling additional channels in. Unlike other 3D Channel plug-ins, EXtractoR and IDentifier list all channels in a file by name and let you map them to the AE layer.
System Requirements
- Photoshop CS3 Extended
- After Effects CS3
