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The new EXR 2 file features

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The new EXR 2 file features

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- [Narrator] Nuke 8 supports EXR 2, the latest version of the EXR file format. With EXR 1, to access one layer or channel, you had to load the entire file in. With EXR 2, you can load just in only what you need, speeding up production. Note that if you try to load an EXR 2 image into Nuke 7, you'll get an error message. By the way, you won't find the test frames I'm using here in the exercise files because the file sizes need to be very large in order to demonstrate the performance differences. So let's start by seeing how we actually create an EXR 2 file in Nuke. In the right node, when you tell it that want to do an EXR file, the right node reconfigures itself and here is our new feature right here: interleave. This pop up menu has three choices. The first one, channels, layers and views, is the default. And this writes an EXR 1 file which is backward compatible with older Nukes and other older software. This one, channels and layers, is an EXR 2 file that has the views separated…

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