Which format for animation image sequence?

[Rhodesy]

It's been a long time since I've done any motion work but I'm increasingly getting asked if I can do flythroughs for schemes. I am planning to just use simple photoshop as my editor as I don't have an ae license and to be honest might be overkill for short clips. Unless anyone can recommend an inexpensive editor that has some good colour grading and text options?

My main question is which format to save my image sequence out in? I appreciate I will be foregoing any multi pass channels going through photoshop but I also want to keep it streamlined and workable. My experience with AE from a few years ago was that I ended up with a boatload of timelines and it was difficult to keep track of everything.

Any general pointers would be really helpful. If there is a way to efficiently use multi passes in an affordable and easy to use software I'm all ears! Many thanks

[Ricky Johnson]

I think there are some free options here for compositing that might be of interest:  https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/fusion

I've not used them, or looked at the features properly, so sorry if that's a useless suggestion! It just stuck in my mind from somewhere that they're available for free.

[Rhodesy]

wow thanks for the tip. I had heard of people using fusion on these forums but assumed it was an expensive bit of kit for those who use it as a daily tool. Didn't realise there was a free version on offer. The product spec looks like it will do a lot more than I will ever need it for im sure. Downloading now. Thanks again.

[mraw]

Render multichannel exrs. Unfortunately Multichannel-workflow is a bit cumbersome in Fusion. But nonetheless it is a free and powerful tool.