Building proxies for images was always saving them as JPG files.
However when input images are floating point (e.g. EXR files), this
loses both range and precision, making the resulting proxies
not really be useful for anything where you'd be using EXR files.
Change this to save float image proxies as EXR instead (FP16 data,
lossy DWAA compression). In my quick tests this does result in about
3x-4x larger proxy file size compared to JPG, however at 50% DWAA
quality that is still 10-30x smaller than original EXRs would be.
Changed proxy image loading to explicitly tell to load metadata. JPGs
were always loading it anyway, but EXRs only load when instructed to
do so.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128835
bce1ba16ae