Supported File Formats

EXR Compression

EXR file metadata contains a compression key/value pair detailing the compression type used to write the .exr file. The value is expressed as the name of the compression type or an integer referencing the compression used:

0 - no compression

1 - RLE compression, run length encoding

2 - Zip compression, one scan line at a time

3 - Zip compression, in blocks of 16 scan lines

4 - PIZ-based wavelet compression, in blocks of 32 scan lines

5 - PXR24 compression, lossy 24-bit float

6 - B44 compression, lossy 4-by-4 pixel block, fixed rate

7 - B44A compression, lossy 4-by-4 pixel block, flat fields are compressed more

obsolete

Adjust compression levels using the quality slider in the Write node’s properties panel.

OpenEXR handles 16- and 32-bit float. This 16 is also called "half float" and is different from the 16-bit integer that all the other formats that support 16-bit use.

Note: To read and write scanline deep OpenEXR 2.0 files, use the DeepRead and DeepWrite nodes.

While Flix 5 reads standard Photoshop® blend modes, it doesn't read layer comps or recognize group blend modes. Layers are read into separate Flix 5 channel sets and anything that doesn't map into that is ignored.

QuickTime is only supported by default on Windows and Mac OS X. To use QuickTime files on Linux, you need to use the prefix ffmpeg: before the file path and file name, for example,
ffmpeg:\z:\job\FILM\IMG\final_comp_v01.####.mov. When working with Write nodes, you can also choose ffmpeg from the file type dropdown menu and use mov as the file extension. This way, Flix 5 will use its reader/writer that is based on the FFmpeg open source library to decode/encode QuickTime files.

This format stores an 8-bit mantissa for each of r, g, and b and an additional 8-bit exponent that is shared by all three, which packs the floating point RGB triplet into 32 bits per pixel.

If utilized, the compression schema on imported TIFF sequences must be LZW®.