.exr output does not match Render View.

[granmail]

I don't have a lot of experience with .exr file output format and was going to start using it with Z-Depth for some simple camera blur effects, but when I render using the .exr format, all of my images look like they have a white haze over them. The renders look fine in the Render View as they are rendering, but when I open up the file after it is completed, the images don't match. I changed the file type to TIF and it renders correctly. Is there something I'm missing about the .exr format that might be causing this? (no z-Depth AOV is being used in these renders yet)

Image 1 - Render View window while rendering.

Image 2 - Render saved as EXR.

Image 3- Render saved as TIF.

[Christoph_Schaedl]

Exr files are linear files you need to load them with that in mind. Every compositing software should do that out of the box.

What software are you using?

[granmail]

The project in which I am working was originally rendered in Maya 2020. Recently I updated all the files to work to work in 2024, but am still using the color management file that I had previously used so my new renders match the old ones. I was able to replicate the look of the older renders in After Effects by loading the same color management file into the project settings there, so I guess I found a solution for working with the .exr renders. Not sure if that's common practice. I was just a little surprised to see such a big difference between what I thought I was rendering and the result the .exr's were giving me. No other file format seemed to have that issue.

[Christoph_Schaedl]

Its the other way around. All other file formats are creating problems. EXR is 32 bit designed by ILM to solve all kind of issues for compositing.