Best file format for saving frames in animation

[Luke]

Hey all,

I'm just wondering for those who have more experience than I at animations, what file format are you saving your frames out as? exr, png, tiff... something else?

any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks.

[maru]

It really depends what exactly you are planning to do with those frames. Post-process them further? Use render elements too? Make some 32-bit adjustments?
If you just need to render some frames and assemble them into an animation without using too much disk space, you can even save in JPG. :)

[Luke]

It really depends what exactly you are planning to do with those frames. Post-process them further? Use render elements too? Make some 32-bit adjustments?
If you just need to render some frames and assemble them into an animation without using too much disk space, you can even save in JPG. :)

Thanks Marcin,

I usually render my stills to exr, so I'd usually do that for the animations, though with these ones I'm not doing too much post work, maybe just some luts/vignetting in premiere... is tiff or png a better option? I'm worried jpg would be too lossy especially given it'll get compressed for youtube when exporting...