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DidYaWipetoday at 7:41 AM1 replyview on HN

"PNG is popular with some Commercial Application developers, but the exposure and color problems still look 1980's awful in some use-cases."

What are you talking about? It's a bitmap. It has nothing to do with "exposure and color problems."


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Joel_Mckaytoday at 8:08 AM

In general, with some applications people hit the limits pretty quickly with PNG and JPG. In our use-case, the EXR format essentially meant a rendered part of the source image wouldn't be "overexposed" by the render pipeline, and layers could be later adjusted to better match in Resolve. Example: your scenes fireball simulation won't look like a fried egg photo from 1980 due to hitting 0xFF.

If you've never encountered the use-case, than don't worry about the aesthetics. Seriously, many vendors also just don't care... especially after they already were paid. Best of luck =3

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