Converting EXR sequence to quicktime

Deadline
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I’m curious why EXR’s aren’t supported in Quicktime creation? I’ve been using a custom version of the QuicktimeSubmission.py. But when we ran it on a job that rendered EXR’s it warned that this wasn’t a supported file format.

Thanks
James

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I don’t think Quicktime player supports exr. You could possibly try DJV as alternative?

edit. yeah it looks like Quicktime can’t open exr files.

support.apple.com/kb/SP521?locale=en_US

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Draft is all about making quicktimes, slap comps, slates and you have it already in Deadline and licensed if you’re on annual support!
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … Movie.html

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Yeah, I’m working on tying in Draft to my custom Quicktime script so that it uses Draft when it detects an EXR sequence. But I was curious as to the reason. I’m guessing it’s on Apple’s end?

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Yep, correct, Apple Quicktime simply doesn’t support this image type.