Supported formats

Extension	Use case	Notes
exr	VFX intermediate material	Recommended. Supports HDR and multilayer files
dpx	Film / color management	Recommended
tif / tiff	High-quality scans and intermediates
png	Lightweight previews and checks
jpg / jpeg	Lightweight previews and checks
webp	Web delivery
tga	Game / legacy assets
bmp	Legacy assets

All eight formats above are enabled by default. Toggle them individually under Preferences → Scanning → Extensions. At least one must stay enabled.

Sequence detection rules

Only files whose names match the following regular expression are treated as sequence candidates.

^(.+?)(\d+)\.([^.]+)$    example: shot_0001.exr / render.0042.png / frame.001.dpx

The trailing numeric portion is the frame number. The extension must be one of the eight formats above, and extension matching is case-insensitive (EXR and exr are the same). The base name, however, is case-sensitive, so Shot and shot become separate groups. Files are grouped as a sequence only when they have the same directory, same base name, same extension, and same digit count. For example, 0001.exr and 1.exr have different digit counts, so they become separate groups.

Only groups with two or more frames are shown as sequences. Single image files do not appear in the list. To avoid accidentally treating long timestamp-like numbers as frame numbers, files with a frame range of 1 million or more are not treated as sequences.

EXR layers and metadata

EXR files that contain multiple layers (diffuse / specular / normal, and so on) can be expanded in the table to inspect each layer. Metadata can be checked in Lens, and can also be used for CSV / JSON export and anomaly detection rules.

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