targa and open EXR seuences

[petokosun]

hi all

what are the diferences, advantages and disadvantages of rendering as targa and open EXR.

[Luuk Steitner]

The advantage of rendering image sequences is you can continue rendering at the last frame if the render was aborted for whatever reason, when you render to a video file it will be useless if aborted. You can also divide the render job over multiple computers or multiple A:M instances on a multi-core pc.

TGA images can store an alpha buffer and OpenEXR can store many more buffers, for example each light in each own buffer. This is great for compositing purposes.

[petokosun]

Thank you