Please add support for AVIF images to Photo Mechanic.
I'm running into this format more and more often.
After looking up its background today to find out why I'm seeing it (and why I want to be able to see it in PM), I found out that it's actually an amazing and very powerful and very fast-growing image format pioneered by Netflix to help mitigate their bandwidth headaches while actually dramatically increasing image quality.
This format is not an esoteric, rare format, but has over 95% compatibility and support in browsers and devices today.
From a photography viewpoint, it would be the perfect format to export RAWS too, since it supports 8, 10, and 12-bit formats, all with much smaller sizes and far higher perceptual quality than JPEG, or even WebP.
For reference:
https://tsev.dev/posts/2023-11-10-should-avif-be-the-dominant-image-format/Thank you very much!
