Working with openexr

[Deepakpais]

Hi everyone, i’m looking for information on how to use cg passes in flame properly and setup the batch to use multichannel open exr files…any inputs are welcome… Tia

[PlaceYourBetts]

This Logik live is a good place to start:

Logik Live Episode #06 - CG Compositing and Color Management in Flame with John Ashby

There is a whole lot of discussion about the AOV passes you might get given and how to use them.

Rebuilding the CG beauty

I know that @randy knows. He is being a good host and asking the layman questions to help me frame this topic more clearly The Beauty Pass is the preferred result of the CG render. On its way to being completed the renderer will do different passes/calculations, and it will combine them all together and deliver the result that the CG artists intended. You can save off these individual passes, called AOVs ( Arbitrary output variables) and recombine them to rebuild the Beauty Pass. Why w…

[Deepakpais]

Thanks so much @PlaceYourBetts, ill give this a go once im on the box

[ytf]

This is another good one: Logik Live Episode #46: ACES & Subtractive CG Comping with Finn Jäger - YouTube

[Deepakpais]

Thanks @ytf ill check this out…

[PlaceYourBetts]

A quick three up schematic of how I might use the normals pass to create a matte for regrading/relighting