Best format to render your image sequences?

[Half Ice]

my guess would be png, but i really would like to know the best one.

[Zappy]

Not JP(E)G, at least (as JP(E)G images are lossy-compressed, losing some detail).

PNG is probably what many people (including me) use (as PNG images are widely supported by many things and is also losslessly-compressed, meaning it keeps all the detail without the filesize being as huge as if it was uncompressed).

[Half Ice]

ty

[R234]

TGA exports a bit faster since that's what SFM natively exports as (for other formats it has conversion to do). PNG is good too though.

[Marco Skoll]

It depends on what "best" means. Personally, I use either PNG or PFM.

PNG is a reliable, widely supported lossless format that will make it possible to a straight assembly and compression of your final video with no additional image artefacts or loss of detail.

PFM however has the monopoly on quality, as this exports in 32bpc colour, allowing you to colour correct and post-process to your heart's content.
The filesize is however, obviously, much larger, and the additional quality is only really of merit for post-processing, as you will eventually probably need to compress down to 8bpc for most video formats and hardware.
(It's also not supported by most software).

Very powerful though - I colour corrected this: https://sta.sh/01zsq60ppdmx
into this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1234940654
with no loss of final quality.

[Machina13]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

It depends on what "best" means. Personally, I use either PNG or PFM.

PNG is a reliable, widely supported lossless format that will make it possible to a straight assembly and compression of your final video with no additional image artefacts or loss of detail.

PFM however has the monopoly on quality, as this exports in 32bpc colour, allowing you to colour correct and post-process to your heart's content.
The filesize is however, obviously, much larger, and the additional quality is only really of merit for post-processing, as you will eventually probably need to compress down to 8bpc for most video formats and hardware.
(It's also not supported by most software).

Very powerful though - I colour corrected this: https://sta.sh/01zsq60ppdmx
into this:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1234940654
with no loss of final quality.

wait, so can i import a poster as a pfm?

[Marco Skoll]

Originally posted by Machina|SFM COMISSIONS:

wait, so can i import a poster as a pfm?

No, PFM is only available in image sequence mode, and can't be used in poster mode.

(I assume you mean "export", but if you do mean "import"... in SFM, no. In anything else... well, what exactly?)

[Machina13]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

Originally posted by Machina|SFM COMISSIONS:

wait, so can i import a poster as a pfm?

No, PFM is only available in image sequence mode, and can't be used in poster mode.

(I assume you mean "export", but if you do mean "import"... in SFM, no. In anything else... well, what exactly?)

ah yes i meant eport, just being clumsy thanks for the info tho