Re: [Openexr-user] Questions for more experienced users

[Florian Kainz]

The Academy's Image Interchange Framework has talked about adopting or
defining an image sequence container at some point, but so far any
plans are rather vague.  The committee is currently focusing on some
thorny color management issues.  Container files have not been a high
priority, at least in part because the committee members are using
workflows based on one file per frame, and those tend to work well in
practice.

Florian


Klaus Steden wrote:
> > One of the tasks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'
> > Image Interchange Framework committee is to figure out how to store,
> > use and exchange the kind of metadata you mentioned above.  The recently
> > released Color Transformation Language is a first step in this direction.
> > (See http://www.oscars.org/council/ctl.html)
> Florian (or anyone else reading this),
>
> Is anyone aware of plans by the Academy to integrate some kind of 
> MXF-style metadata container in their plans for image interchange formats?
>
> The first few iterations of MXF were more good intention than practical 
> implementations, but similar to the varied implementations of TIFF, many 
> vendors seemed to reject the idea of standardizing on a container format.
>
> There is considerable pressure where I work to come up with an industry 
> standard interchange format for digital media files, but I'm curious to 
> know if the Academy is listening.
>
> cheers,
> Klaus