Re: quicktime Combustion horrors...

Well, the first thing I would have said is to avoid Quicktime as it is evil and to use image sequences. PNG read and write quicker than TIFFs in my experience. Since you are unhappy using TIFFs I'd say to use Quicktime with compression = NONE. Not UNCOMPRESSED but NONE. If you are using Quciktimes back and forth from Mac to PC you will have gamma shifts in your material if you use almost any other codec including Animation. Combustion really only supports the older codecs so I'm not sure how robust it's tolerance for a recent vintage Avid codec is going to be. Try reading an H.264 quicktime in to Combustion and it will crash. I've spent a lot of time working around this and the best method is PNG files but if you MUST use quicktime go with NONE compression. Good luck!