Best video codec without loss of prerenders of cartoon with alpha

Hey guys.  I have done a lot of research on this but still can not find a satisfactory solution.

I have hundreds of comps I prerender and re - use on a regular basis.  These compositions are simple solid colors, cartoons, character animation.  They contain a LOT of space, with the image composed of only a small part of the frame.  This is necessary for all line up in the end.  I must be able to decode these prerenders on Mac and Windows, but it's OK if they can only be encoded on the Mac.  I need for a fast codec for decoding, but I don't like how much time it takes to encode them.  I don't like which is the container, but Quicktime seems to be the best container that supports the AE.

After many tests, the only reasonable formats, that I could find were:

ProRes 4444

Animation

I tried DnxHD, PNG (Quicktime), PNG (Image sequence) and all other variants ProRes (with a separate film for alpha).  DnxHD does not work because it does work to fixed sizes and peaks out at 1920 x 1080.  All other variants ProRes do not work because they do not have alpha, and when I use a separate ProRes for Alpha rendering, there are artifacts on the edges.  PNG to QuickTime is much too slow to decode, and the files are larger than the Animation.  Using image sequences is a pain to maintain and seems to be slower as well.  I wish I could try codecs like HuffYuv and Lagarith, but they are not supported on Mac.

ProRes 4 x 4 would be perfect, but I have no need of 16-bit color.  Animation is the fastest codec, but produces files that are too big.  75% quality, it produces smaller than ProRes files, but introduces artifacts.

I was wondering if there is a 8-bit with alpha codec that anyone would recommend for this.

Also, I wonder if using a single, very long Quicktime files are faster for AE to use that much more short Quicktime files.

Thank you

Bryan

You must take another look at PNG... the video codec of QT, in other words: it indeed does support alpha channels!  In general, the size of the files is a bit smaller than the Animation, is a 10-bit codec.  As Animation, there is also no loss.

I can't speak to the length of the file.  It depends on what is happening in the animation, and how you plan to use.

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