Please make the standalone denoiser remove unneeded denoiser layers. I have been asking for this for ages and it is a simple fix.

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1. Every EXR file set up for the standalone denoiser has around 9 extra layers for the denoiser.
2. The denoiser writes these files AGAIN into the files that have been denoised.
3. This makes the denoised EXRs unnecessarily large.
4. This is in incredibly inefficient.
5. It wastes hundreds of gigabytes over the course of an animation project.
6. Over the course of thousands of users you're wasting an INCREDIBLE amount of storage space.
7. It makes editing and post production slower.
8. It's a REALLY simple fix and I have been asking for this for a long time.
9. For the love of God please fix this.

vlado You said you were going to look into this, but haven't.

1. This is wasteful of people's hard drive space - it costs money.
2. It's wasteful for the environment.
3. It's wasteful because it makes editing and post production slower.

https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray...-done-it-s-job

We have discussed this multiple times and people have made various suggestions - the easy solution is: have an option to remove the denoiser layers and reduce file size.

There is a 3rd party utility I can run to strip these layers, but I would prefer not to have to do this, because it's just ANOTHER step in master files and another frame sequence.

https://www.vfxgrace.com/product/exr_compression/

I'd bet €100 that a competent programmer could fix the standalone renderer in half a day at most.

Is Chaos group still as responsive as it used to be or have those days gone?