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png vs. targa
Can anyone explain the difference between PNG and targa files to me? I’m doing a project in flash, photoshop and ae, then editing in final cut pro. It’s an animated project–I’m creating my background images in Photoshop and doing my animations in flash. I’m exporting both my photoshop files and flash files into ae, where I’ll do camera moves, add filters and composite. I’m exporting the flash files as png sequences vs. swf’s. For the best possible quality, should I export my photoshop files as targa or png’s? I obviously need to keep alpha channels in all files. BTW, this is for the internet and tv–so my resolution is 720X540 with 72ppi at 24frames.
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png, tga and psd
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Thanks, Payton. I’ll actually be going to NTSC, but I’m assuming it’s the same thing. So would you then suggest rendering the AE files as quicktime (I’m a mac person) and bringing the quicktimes into Final Cut pro for editing and music sweetening? I’m constructing the animations scene by scene to make it manageable.
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i prefer image sequences, because you need to rerender only specific frames in case of errors. but if you prefer quicktime – you can use png compression there too. another good (and most common for QT) choice for QT is “Animation” codec. but make sure that you set the quality to hightest and disable any keyframesettings in the QT dialogue. by the way: if you export out of flash use Quicktime Video instead of Quicktime to ensure that you render pixelbased data (instead of vectors).
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Thanks again, Payton. SOrry, newbie here, obiviously, but have another question: in exporting out of flash, you said to render Quicktime Video vs. QUicktime to ensure I render pixelbased data vs. vector. WHy is that important? I’m planning on doing my camera moves, including zooms, in AE. Wouldn’t it be more advantageous to keep the flash data as vectors while in AE, so when I zoom in, quality stays the same? Then, when done, render to QT (animation codec) or export as a PNG sequence to use in FCP?
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you can try it even with the vector output of flash.
the advantage of pixelbased data is that it is kind of “absolute”. but if the vector quicktimes works well in your pipeline – just do it.used that kind of export a few years ago. premiere 6 understood this files pretty well. but the next premiere apps doesn
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Thanks, Payton. I guess I’ll do a bit of experimenting, see what works best.
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