[b-kandor]

This is not a maxwell question!

I'm using photoworks (solidworks) to render a quick animation. I need to save out the frames as stills and I have only 2 choices: .bmp or .tga

I'm not familiar enough with the differences to know in there is any advantage one way or the other, or if they are both essentially the same?

Thanks,

Kandor

[Bubbaloo]

I think .tga files will be better quality.
Render a frame for both and compare.

[Maximus3D]

As Bubba says, of two evil things, pick the one least evil ..tga

/ Max

[tom]

There is no quality difference between TGA and BMP. Both are lossless raster formats. TGA has other advantages over BMP but it's not about quality.

[ivox3]

Depending what you might choose to encode the video, ...there's a chance that tga could give problems, ..but bmp is common.

[JCAddy]

You can't save an alpha within a BMP can you? TGA I believe you can.

I normally either save TIF or JPEG for an animation.

[ivox3]

Nope on the alpha --- as far as I know.

Why save tif/tga if you don't care about those channels ?

I say BMP in this case, ...but I personally opt for jpg.

[WillMartin]

I do PNG's as I just assumed those were both lossless (unlike jpg's) and smaller files than BMP (but equal quality). Am I wrongish?

[iker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison ... le_formats

...see Technical Details