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I do Both Kai,
I use avi for my main animation sequence . But I save all the PNG's in the Temp render folder that are created when rendering the avi. but if you do it that way make sure you make copies & save the PNG's before you save the AVI . I keep the png's as back up. But generally I prefer using AVI using Microsoft codex uncompressed which works best in my Adobe premiere film editor. Over the years I found using Individual PNG's for film editing is fine for very short scenes. But when you have to start putting together a 100,000 plus of them to make a 5 minute film that gets tiring pretty fast, so. I rather prefer to render to AVI and keep the keyframe PNG's that are created in the temp render folder for back up in case i need to redo or edit a scene plus the png's back up make great promos.
That makes sense, thank you for the pointers :) I'm currently favouring PNG image sequences as I prefer their quality over exporting as video (although I haven't delved to deep into it to realise there was uncompressed export options!) I'm using Hitfilm 4 for editing and compositing which imports an image sequence as a video clip which is better than my original method of compiling each image sequence in Movie Maker to export as video.
I'm still very new to attempting animation and have a long way to go (particularly with expressions and the more ambient subtle movements within movements) but after doing quite a few text sequences I am now working on a full project. I'm looking forward to posting it when it's completed to get plenty of feedback on how to improve going forward but not rushing myself to that point.
Keep up the great work Ivy, I've taken up watching an Ivy Summers animation a day which really gets the motivation going so thank you :)
27hours and half way through frame 157 of a sequence and realise that something unfixable in post is WAY off :( Cue the dreaded cancel, fix and start from frame 0 *sigh*
i can really feel you., that is why I try to save my temp render folder for each scene I am rendering.sometimes I can go back and just re do the PN'S that need fixing, if its only a few frames then you can do some pre-post work. Though if its a error during the whole render run.. then you know its going to be a re do. Gads I hate re rendering a scene. that takes a day and a half to render
Wow! Nice stuff Ivy! Maybe someday I will find time for animation.
Thank you for watching my animation & the comments .. I look forawrd to seeing what you create for an animation :)