imcopy is a powerful utility that lets you import and export images or image sequences from the framestore and convert them to any image format supported by Smoke. It supports image operations such as cropping, scaling, and LUT conversion. In addition, imcopy allows you to select the output compression.

While from_framestore and to_framestore work with uncompressed SGI image files only, imcopy recognizes all the image file formats supported by Smoke. However, unlike from_framestore and to_framestore, this utility must have direct access to the image files, whether on a local filesystem or on a remote host accessed via NFS.

Use imcopy to:

• Convert image formats supported by Smoke. imcopy supports 8 bits per component or greater for image formats such as Cineon, SGI, Wavefront^™, TIFF, Tdi/Maya, and DPX.
• Apply a LUT (Lookup Table) for linear-to-log conversion.
• Crop and resize images upon import/conversion.
• Extract the alpha channel from an RGBA image, and output it as a separate file.

To start imcopy:

1. Make sure that /usr/discreet/io/<version number>/bin is in your path.
2. Type:

   imcopy <imcopy options> <in file name and path> <out file name and path> <start index> <stop index>