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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:07:41 -0700
From: Robert Houghton <gfxguy74@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [AE] TIFF vs PNG vs other?
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You can always try and test it out, with PNG you're trading more 
processor overhead for file size. When decompressing and re-encoding you 
will get a larger hit on the media conversion speed vs TIFF from what 
I've experienced. I haven't worked with PNGs that went above 8 bit 
levels however so YMMV. I would personally run a test of 30 seconds of 
footage and see if converting becomes bogged up.

     -Rob

On 4/11/2014 10:50 AM, scott.aelist wrote:
> Does anyone have any tips or a link for reading up on how to decide on 
> an image sequence format. I'm currently working on a project where 
> we're rendering 16bit 4k TIFF sequences, and then converting those to 
> prores or DNxHD. I feel like the sheer size of these TIFF sequences is 
> really slowing us down, both in reading the sequences into AE and 
> server traffic. Am I wrong in thinking we could speed things up using 
> PNG or another format?