I looked for an answer but couldn’t find one.
I know VFX professionals have a way to do this. Is there a way I can make Windows display thumbnails for Open EXR files?
Thanks!
I use Djview. Its free and you can view single images or sequences
From within Windows: NO… afaik.
From a app that support exr: yes, often
I use XNView, so I can view almost all fileformats within the viewer. Even ancient, very custom ones.
Oh… and it’s free for personal use as well, like Winrar. 
Thanks. I have XN View, which says it supports Open EXR, but I even updated to the latest version and I wasn’t able to get it work. That would be a good solution if it worked. I wrote to Support about it.
I also have DJView which sort of works, but it’s not like a real file browser for moving and deleting files.
Blender’s own file browser slightly better, but what I really want it Open EXR support in Windows.
Thanks!
hmmm… In the older versions of XNView, there was a additonal ‘formats pack’ to be downloaded and installed to see various formats. That might be your case here as well.
And for Windows shell support, you can try this on top of XNView:
XnView Software · XnShell
You’re running the MP version, not Classic?
edit: just DL’d the latest MP version, and tried it. I can see exr’s in the viewer without any issues here.
I think FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is what you are looking for. Note that this codec pack does not create thumbnails for exr encoded in DWAA or DWAB, because the name of these compressions is not written in the image metadata and there is no way to detect them, the other types of compression are recognized.
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Well, that is a problem, since I just started using that on the advice of people online.
I did save some with other compression formats, and they aren’t shown either.
Thanks!
No, I was not aware of either of those things. I have Classic installed. What’s MP?
Thanks! I’ll give those a try. Hopefully the compression format isn’t an issue. That saves a LOT of hard drive space!
In case you couldn’t find the MP version of XNView on the website.
But yes, the Classic version had a separate file formats pack to install for all those ’ exotic’ file formats.
No idea how compression will do, but I’ve always been able to see all my exr’s rendered variants, so hope it works for you too.
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Thank you!