Please add .DPX Image File Support

[psychfilms]

Dear Affinity Photo Customer Support:

 

I work restoring vintage film and professional digital scanning of motion picture film uses the Digital Picture Exchange (.DPX) file format for video editing.  DPX is an industry standard where each frame of scanned film is an image file.  

 

I would like to request that 'importing' support for the ( DPX ) file format be included in future updates of Affinity Photo.

 

From Wikipedia Listing for DPX::   

 

Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) is a common file format for digital intermediate and visual effects work and is an ANSI/SMPTEstandard (268M-2003).^[2] The file format is most commonly used to represent the density of each colour channel of a scanned negative film in an uncompressed "logarithmic" image where the gamma of the original camera negative is preserved as taken by a film scanner. For this reason, DPX is the worldwide-chosen format for still frames storage in most digital intermediate post-production facilities and film labs. Other common video formats are supported as well (see below), from video to purely digital ones, making DPX a file format suitable for almost any raster digital imaging applications. DPX provides, in fact, a great deal of flexibility in storing colour information, colour spaces and colour planes for exchange between production facilities. Multiple forms of packing and alignment are possible. The DPX specification allows for a wide variety of metadata to further clarify information stored (and storable) within each file.

The DPX file format was originally derived from the Kodak Cineon open file format (.cin file extension) used for digital images generated by Kodak's original film scanner. The original DPX (version 1.0) specifications are part of SMPTE 268M-1994.^[3] The specification was later improved and its latest version (2.0) is published by SMPTE as ANSI/SMPTE 268M-2003.

 

Thank you.  Bart