<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Coen Spoor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcspoor@planet.nl">jcspoor@planet.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>-don't use PNG, it may have alpha and look pretty, the compression algorithm makes is horrific for your memory usage</div><div>-decode footage into a tga sequence, larger files but that's what you want, large easy to read files, tga's have from what I can tell almost a 1:1 file size/memory usage ratio</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>All formats of the same resolution/bit depth (eg. 8bit vs float) will take up the same amount of space in memory in Blender. What might be slower in the case of PNG etc is decoding it on file read, but that's CPU not memory.<br>
<br></div></div>Matt<br>