On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Chris Marshall wrote:
Sorry, it wasn't meant to sound like a reaction. We send material to the USA and sometimes it's usefull
to use pict because it uses lossless compression, handy for fitting larger amounts of animation
(sequences of frames) on fewer DVD's. I know soft pics also have lossless compression, but the format
isn't supported at the place we send the material to, whereas pict's are. Jpegs aren't lossless and
Tiffs take up masses of space, so picts are quite usefull, still.
Is there a more up-to-date alternative?
TIF with LZW is smaller that PICT. PICT uses RLE only. Of course you have
to make sure both sides understand the same compression for the TIF.
Ideally everything is floating point in something like OpenEXR. But for
8-bit, people mainly use .tga files.
There is nothing wrong with PICT files, other than they are 8-bit. So if
you have a pipeline setup, and are using 8-bit only, no sense in changing
anything.
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