Re: [Openexr-devel] keycode

[Kevin Wheatley]

Ken McGaugh wrote:
> We want to store film keycode information in our exr's, and before I
> decide what header attribute(s) to create for this I wanted to
> know if anybody else is doing this already.  If so, what type and
> names did you choose for your header attributes.
> 
> I was hoping to embed the keycode information into one string attribute
> rather than 5 attributes of various types is is done in DPX/cineon files.

timecode ?
framerate ?
...

soon you'll end up with cut down DPX format that supports HDR and
compression ... with a decent reference implementation.

That idea sounds silly, I mean who on earth would want such a thing
:-)

(For the irony deprived, that's a yes)

If your going to encode it, do you want the numeric encoding of the
barcode or the human lettered encoding? I'd go with barcodes, that way
when there is a new stock code you don't care about it. Leave it to
the application to decode it. At which point I'm not sure the string
encoding is worth while.


Kevin

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