Which still format will render quickest?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Tiffs render faster than JPEGs…

Jerry

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[Jerry Hofmann]

I find that using this dpi instead of the more common 300 dpi also renders faster, and looks much the same… if you need to move or zoom on them, just make them larger than the frame size you’re editing them into. But keep them at 72dpi in Photoshop.

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[Chris Poisson]

Hi Jerry, By my little tests tiffs and jpegs were almost a dead heat.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Have you tried lowering the dpi?

Boy I sure seem to feel that the tiffs here render faster… ?

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[Chris Poisson]

Hi Jerry,

The control specs in my test followed the general recommended recipe around here, all the stills were 72 dpi at about 2 x the frame size, or 1440×960. All were made exactly the same from the same photos. I wish what you are saying was true, that’s what I suspected that got this whole topic going, that jpegs were slowing down a recent project, but it just ain’t true.

Sorry…