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

[Kevin Wheatley]

Florian Kainz wrote:
> 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.

container files along the lines of MXF for interoperability are evil...

Personally I've got a container file format I like ... its called a 
directory :-)

If you need to wrap them into a container to give you a single file, I 
suggest tar/cpio or similar don't invent anything beyond using the 
existing ones.

Kevin

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