Environment Lights RAW 8K/16K and HDR format export

[aastranet]

Please consider to intergrate these industry standar formats in this tool.

With only 4K and .exr export the app is not suisuitable for  professional pipelines. 

Wokring with proffesional cameras with RAW images is also a problem as none of those are supported. 

Please make this tool as an industry standar one.

Thank you.

[LoryAline]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.

Can you share with us your worflow from end to end and what kind of file you use? 
It will help us understand and improve the workflow.

Regards.

[aastranet]

Hello and thank you for getting back.

Starting from the camera, the raw files at 60MP are in .arw format. These images can be exported as .tiff 16 or 32 bit.

When using a pano-head we are dealing with 12 images in 5 tilts so in total there are 60 images at about 100mb per image. 

Furthermore there are times that we need to shoot in multiple exposures so to have the best exposure range possible when implement these HDRIs in a DCC, so that means 36 images in 5 tilts in a total of 180 pics of 100mp each per HDRI map.

The most standard file format of an HDRI file for most DCCs and render engines is the radiance .HDR file format on export.

The Environment Lights in SP (HDRI) is important imo to be able to create industry UHD HDRI maps that can be used in any DCC, that means better file support and able to deal with big data files up to 6-10GB per project.

Then in Photoshop is easy to decrease the file size but up to that final stage the quality should be the highest possible since nowdays the HDRIs are not only used for just lighting but also as part of a composition.

Best Regards

[Cyril Dellenbach]

Currently complicated to implement, but under review for future releases