Affinity Photo: Cryptomatte

[DannyBCreative]

Hey All, I've been away from AP for a bit due to work assignments requiring the "other" guys software, but I'm slowly trying to reintegrate AP back into my pipeline. I know AP has always had the ability to work with 32 bit linear multilayer EXR files, but can it recognize Cryptomatte layers yet? I'm currently not using Ver. 2 on my PC so I can't test this, which is why I'm asking.

Thanks for any feedback you can provide!
 

[stuck]

40 minutes ago, DannyBCreative said:

I can't test this

Can you not install the free trial?

[DannyBCreative]

2 minutes ago, stuck said:

Can you not install the free trial?

I could, but if someone knows the answer already, that takes less time and storage on my system. I know Photoshop can already do this via a powerful and free plugin. This is what I'm currently doing, but I was hoping that AP could do this by now.

[firstdefence]

Windows version only, but someone on a Windows system could test the EXR-IO plugin out in Affinity Photo 2.20  https://www.exr-io.com/

[DannyBCreative]

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Windows version only, but someone on a Windows system could test the EXR-IO plugin out in Affinity Photo 2.20  https://www.exr-io.com/

This is what I use in Photoshop currently. I have spoken to the developers of EXR-IO and they tell me that it will not work currently with Affinity Photo, but they are interested in making a plug-in explicitly for AP. I made a post about this a while back. They asked if Affinity Photo has an SDK that they could use. My post on the subject received no traction. 

[DannyBCreative]

I'm guessing the answer to my question is, no, AP is not capable of using cryptomatte layers in multilayer EXR files.

[NathanC]

This has been raised before in the thread linked below in regards to adding native/plugin support in V1, as far as I'm aware the lack of native support is still true in V2 as I can't any info to suggest otherwise.

 

 

[DannyBCreative]

Thanks, Nathan. It does seem to have gone nowhere. Shame too, as that's the one thing keeping me from fully adopting AP in my workflow.

[firstdefence]

23 hours ago, DannyBCreative said:

This is what I use in Photoshop currently. I have spoken to the developers of EXR-IO and they tell me that it will not work currently with Affinity Photo, but they are interested in making a plug-in explicitly for AP. I made a post about this a while back. They asked if Affinity Photo has an SDK that they could use. My post on the subject received no traction. 

As far as I am aware there is currently no SDK available.