CoDex Codecs...
Now here's some really geeky stuff that doesn't seem like it would matter that much to most BUT when in production your format choices are important....
My process for HSM is... Rendering 1920x802 24fps EXR image SEQUENCES out of Cinema 4d... with at least an RGBA pass and a depth pass out of ZBluR... I did a bunch of tests and EXR produced the SMALLEST files out of the 32bit formats which I want with my 3d renders so I can push em hard in After Effects if I want too... So yeh if ya don't know...32bit files are pretty much the highest quality you can make right now as opposed to 16bit and 8bit..... So EXR out of C4d...
So then I have to composite these thangs in After Effects and then render out the quicktime MOVIE files to edit themS... The codec chose to render out the final movies that will make up the master version of the film is the SheerVideo 10 bit codec... Its a lossless 10 bit codec but only a fraction of the size of the other lossless codecs... for WATS I used uncompressed which makes for HUGE files... which is fine wif todays mega hard drives but smaller files travel around the network faster and they are easier to work with because the SheerVideo files only require 33 megs a sec to playback whilst uncompressed is 125 megs+ So that means you need a RAID to playback uncompressed BUT the SheerVideo files can play back on any decent 7200rpm sata drives... like the one in this old Macbook Pro ^ ^ So yeh with Sheervideo I can playback lossless 10bit 1920x802 files on a 4 year old laptop...I think thats pretty suite... So yeh check out the SheerVideo site if you need a 10bit codec made of pure win.
Oh yeh! Also to speed up working with image sequences in After Effects I bought the "Immigration" script for AESCRIPTS there's ton of awesome free ones too like Panorama for yer 2.5d matte paintings.Brought to you by professional weirdo M dot Strange.