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Press 'P' for parameters.

There was the Lytro Cinema Camera.
It was pretty impressive.
You could change focus and depth of field in post. You could extract depth and mattes.
It recorded 755MP per frame that resulted into a 40K image up to 300fps.

But it was very expensive. Rental only. I think it was 125K a day.
I never heard of it being used in a production.

I guess fixing it in post was cheaper.

Maybe this helps...

Alembic files are already USD/Solaris compatible and you can reference them directly.
It filters only usd files, just set the file pattern to "*".

VDB files can be loaded through the "Volume" LOP.

There is "Geometry Sequence" LOP that can load .bgeo files directly.


Don't know about deadline though.