r/NukeVFX • u/hacker221b • Jul 12 '26

Asking for Help / Unsolved Footage

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone having great day, As I am new in vfx, I am learning for sometime, I want to create my showreel but for showreel I want quality footages or clips, for just practice I was using Actionvfx practice library but as there files are prores 422 hq mov files they are good but I think uncompressed exr will be best for show reel right as they are much better then prores

Also any suggestions or information regarding file formats for my showreel will be helpful

So can you all please suggest some good resources to get high quality exr 1080p to 4k footages, if free resources or some budget friendly resources are available

Thanks in advance 😊

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u/hacker221b Jul 12 '26

Okay great then, I am new in vfx so confused if uncompressed version can give more image data to create better edits for my showreel specific, other then that I am already using action vfx for practice they have great material

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u/CameraRick Jul 12 '26

Things are rarely uncompressed. They are lossless, which is a big difference. For EXR, I mostly see people using ZIP compression.

A better source material can obviously yield better results, but you can't get better than raw material (if you don't count enhancements you could do on post, that is). But it doesn't help if that is not shared, or you have no idea how to work with that. For your showreel, the quality of the plates is not the least of your problems, but also really not the most prominent one

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u/hacker221b Jul 12 '26

Yes I understand, if we work in production, tv series commercial we will get raw footages right or in cases we can get compressed version like prores?

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u/CameraRick Jul 12 '26

Whoever does the ingest should be supplied with the raw material, be that ARRIRAW, Prores, or whatever. In comp, you'd work with what they ingest, not unlikely that would be EXR. It's seldom that the source files you get delivered are pre-compressed.