exr format

[INUMAKI TOGE]

i am exporting my animation as exr file format image sequences. how can i bring this to blender to render the animation.

[Omar Domenech]

Any of Sean’s compositing courses will show you in some of the first lessons. Maybe start with Core:

https://cgcookie.com/courses/core-fundamentals-of-compositing-in-blender

Basically the node will read the umbers and know it’s an image sequence, but sounds like you’ll need further guidance after that, so the courses will be ideal. 

[hapit]

Hi,

Exporting from where? For what purpose? Please give more information to be able to answer the question more thoroughly.

Rendering as i understand it in the Blender-Context is to transform 3D Objects and Animation-Data, etc. to an Image.

EXR is an image format, so you already have an animation as a sequence of images.
Do you want to use the Video Editor in Blender and import the sequence?

[Dwayne Savage]

For VSE(Video Sequence Editor):

1. Open blender and on the splash screen click video editing. 

2. Press Ctrl+S or click File->Save and save your blend file.

3. Move mouse cursor over the VSE channels area(Sequence mode).

4. Press Shift+a->Image/sequence->Select your exr sequence and click add image strip or just press enter. 

5. Go to output tab of the properties editor under the Output panel and configure to your needs. Such as render folder and video codec. 

6. Press Ctrl+S or click File->Save

7. Press ctrl+F12 or click render->Render Animation

[Dwayne Savage]

For Compositor: 

1. Open blender and on the splash screen click on image or General.

2. Press Ctrl+S or click File->Save and save your blend file.

3. Click Compositing tab and click new or check use nodes depending on your blender version.

4. Select and delete the Render Layers node.

5. Press Shift+a->input->Image. Connect Image Node’s image/color output to the Composit’s image input. You may want to add a viewer node and connect image node to it also.(Shift+a->output->Viewer)

6. Click on open button on the image node. Select your EXR sequence and click open image button or press enter. Note:Blender should detect it as a sequence as long as the file name ends in a sequential number. If it skips numbers then blender will treat those as blank frames. If for some reason Blender doesn’t detect the sequence you can click where it says single image and change it to image sequence and then set the number of frames. 

7. Go to output tab of the properties editor under the Output panel configure to your needs. Such as render folder and video codec.

8. Go to render tab of the properties editor under the color management panel change View Transform to Standard.

9. Press Ctrl+S or click File->Save

10. Press ctrl+F12 or click render->Render Animation

[Charles]

Personally I’d bring the images into DaVinci Resolve – it’s free – to export a video of the static frames. You can also use it to compost your images if you’ve rendered out passes. 

[INUMAKI TOGE]

Thank you for your help.🙇 Actually I thought that I would export my render sequence as exr file format and then I will do the compositing for motion blur. But I don’t know much about compositing and the passes yet so I turned on the motion blur in the render settings and now exporting the photos in PNG format.

[Dwayne Savage]

for a simple image sequence to video Blender is easier in my opinion. I use DR for more advance stuff and most of my sound design stuff. 

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