OpenEXR Color Management Question

[randy]

Glad you found a solve @nick_devivo .

Okay, please see this thread of the tangential conversation…

Compression and Colorspace for EXR and DPX

you can also run zip compression on DPX fil;es its not the fancy wavelet PIZ but still pretty good. but yes usually 709 inside a EXR is “fine” , its just not “16bit” its at least better than puttin log in therebut you still have like roughly only 10bit of precision but thats usually enough anyhow. whats wrong with ProRes4444XQ if you want to save space? way enough quality for most things. Getting Linear/709 EXRs is easy on Baselight but requires some manual setup …