16 Bpc texture and image export please!

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Joseph Steel

• April 06, 2016 15:42

Retaining latitude and image quality from capture to delivery is key to VFX pipelines. Currently restricting to 8bits is limiting and making workflow a hassle, where it could be streamlined within RC. Is there any plan to support higher bit depth images? OR is there already support and we're missing something? :?

Currently using Nikon D800 with 14bit uncompressed raw files. Transcoded to 16bit tiffs.

Thanks,

Joe.

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  Marcin Dabrowski

  • December 04, 2017 15:50

  please add possibility to export 16bit texutres

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  Erik Christensen

  • November 14, 2016 06:26

  Any update on this?
  
  Thanks
  Erik

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  tomasb

  • April 06, 2016 21:22

  Hi Joseph,
  
  you are right, currently it is just 8bpc but internally we are ready for float per channel. It is in short plan to deliver this, but I do not have precise dates on that so far.
  
  I'm raising priority. Everybody interested in this feature please add some comment. Thank you.

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  Steff

  • April 07, 2016 06:40

  yes.. + 1000
  
  It's a must . :)

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  Joseph Steel

  • April 07, 2016 16:23

  Hi Tomasb,
  
  Thank you for your reply. Its great news that this is in the pipeline.
  
  Let us know If you need beta testers! :P

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  chris

  • April 08, 2016 00:30

  I'd like to see 16-bit tif too.
  
  but having support for floating point exr dose sound interesting.
  
  though i would assume bringing in pre-made hdr files would probably have issues with image sharpness and wouldn't stitch very well.

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  Kimberley Wagner

  • June 30, 2016 16:25

  Hi,
  
  This feature would be an absolute must-have for us. Please let us know if you need beta testers.
  
  Thanks!

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  Steff

  • September 19, 2016 07:07

  erikjameschristensen wrote:

  I would love this. Currently We have to export all of the cameras from RC and import them into Agisoft Photoscan to bake down textures.

  
  
  hello... I also need 16 bits textures... could you explain your workflow...
  
  thank you

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  paulhutchison60

  • September 25, 2016 09:35

  i can't tell you how much +1 this gets from me

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  scott

  • October 12, 2016 21:39

  Watch out with the terminology you use. There is a huge difference between 16bit and 16float. 16bit is integer. You want 16 and 32float support for color images. A Nikon D800 might have 14bit raw files but all of that information in the raw is not transcoded to 16bit tiff. The debayering process from Nikon is integers and not floating point. Nikon does not give out source code for the raw files either. Your best option for a 16float image would be to take multiple exposures then create an exr file from that which will be 16float color in linear colorspace.
  
  What you really need in Capture Reality is to solve with an 8bit tonemapped jpg where the source of that is from a 16float exr. After the mesh is computed you would want to replace color only in RC with the 16float exr source files. Then have RC allow export of the pointcloud in a format that will keep the color data 16float with linear gamma.
  
  They reason why I say solve with a lossless JPG is so you dont actually have RC load exr files for solving. The amount of Ram usage will be huge.
  
  

  Joseph Steel wrote:

  Retaining latitude and image quality from capture to delivery is key to VFX pipelines. Currently restricting to 8bits is limiting and making workflow a hassle, where it could be streamlined within RC. Is there any plan to support higher bit depth images? OR is there already support and we're missing something? :?
  
  Currently using Nikon D800 with 14bit uncompressed raw files. Transcoded to 16bit tiffs.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Joe.

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  Len White

  • January 06, 2017 01:32

  Yes! Very much needing this for a true pipeline solution.

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  Mr A Pareas

  • February 16, 2017 21:19

  +1 for exr texture exports

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  paul PARNEIX

  • May 22, 2017 15:05

  Just adding my voice to this thread :)
  
  Would be awesome to have 16bits textures export feature.

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  Maux

  • September 27, 2017 09:16

  +1 

  Everybody need 16 bits export :D

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  Julian

  • September 27, 2017 11:33

  +1, totally agreed

   

  ps: Coucou Paul ! :)

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  MarioCR

  • September 27, 2017 12:14

  Hello ladies and gentlemen,

   

  If you want this feature, vote for it, so we can see what is the community interested in.

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  Julian

  • September 27, 2017 12:30

  When you say "vote", you're talking about the arrow pointing up on the first post, right?

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  MarioCR

  • September 27, 2017 12:31

  Exactly :)

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  stevenramsey123

  • April 07, 2016 17:17

  Greed if your importing and using tiff then exporting textures the same quality could be usfull

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  breravin

  • July 07, 2016 08:14

  I will join the list of those very interested in 16-bit. Agree it's a "must have".
  
  Is there any update from the Capturing Reality team on this one?

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  Eddt

  • July 21, 2016 21:27

  This would be great, definitely interested!

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  Seb

  • August 03, 2016 02:33

  A must have for the tillable textures creation and delighting process in photoshop.

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  Erik Christensen

  • September 05, 2016 22:03

  I would love this. Currently We have to export all of the cameras from RC and import them into Agisoft Photoscan to bake down textures.

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  Raymond

  • September 08, 2016 16:43

  +1!

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  Frank Zwick

  • September 26, 2016 09:58

  yes! 16bit support please...

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  Lucia CR

  • December 08, 2017 15:17

  hello, it is planned

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  Erik Christensen

  • December 12, 2017 19:35

  Thanks for the responce! this will be a massive bonus to VFX studios wanting to use your software.
  I hope that UDIM support comes along side 16bit float textures as the two go hand in hand.

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  Sam from sample & hold

  • March 19, 2018 17:32

  Any further news on this?  Would be great to see it sooner rather than later.  Cheers

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  JM Turner

  • June 19, 2019 09:43
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  Still no support for 16 bit texture export?

  This should have been a priority considering that RC is now being widely used in VFX and games industry since 2 yrs ago.

  Its been 3 long years and no update... Please devs, don't give us an Adobe-like work ethics.. I hope not..

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  Gerrit Schulze

  • July 31, 2018 18:58

  +1
  EXR export please.

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