Re: Sequence vs Movie clip

Very sensible. I'm aware of a number of situations where image sequences are the better option, such as a long AE render, where a crash means starting over and the sequence lets you pick up with all progress up to that point.

In this instance I wanted to make sure it wasn't significantly better using a clip as a reference as a background clip. For instance if Blender handled it better with a png for each frame and a clip taxed its' resources having to sample it from a quicktime. I wonder about a long image sequence's effect on processing as well, though. Having to flip through 200-300 stills seems as if it would be the slower method, Photoshop cries if I try to open more than 16 images at a time, so it seems a bit like heavy lifting.

My goal here was just to have a frame-by-frame pose reference to animate with, then delete. In this case, simple lo-res Flip-cam clips would be used, and it just represents a whole process pass to create the sequence when the clip is plug and play ready. Of course the resulting animation would then be exported as an image sequence for Ae.