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png or jpg

csteell_c2893e4ab6csteell_c2893e4ab6 Posts: 476
in Daz Studio Discussion

For an image series animation, I see in some online video tutorials that the tutor renders in jpg's images. I usually render in png. My question is would I lose a lot of image quality for animated image files by rendering in jpg format and would I gain a shorter render time? Cheers

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  • StonemasonStonemason Posts: 1,180

    I don't think it would affect render times at all, but it would affect the image quality, jpg is a compressed format,and then whatever you save the movie file as will likely also be a compressed format..so you would end up degrading the image quality twice..png may be bigger than jpg but it is better quality

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,053

    Also, JPG doesn't support transparency, if that's a factor for you. If, for example, you render just a character with nothing else in the scene, the PNG will have a transparent background so you can easily composite it over a background, whereas the JPG will have a solid (black?) background that you would have to delete before attempting to composite.

  • csteell_c2893e4ab6csteell_c2893e4ab6 Posts: 476

    Many thanks for all your replies. I will stick with png.Cheers

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