Quote Originally Posted by tharding
What about transparency?

Also the beauty part of using image files is that it allows for quick updates when the client throws that last minute graphic at you.

I have considered the Photo Jpeg option before but requires a little more pre-production than I have time for sometimes.

I was thinking more of a way of nominating a folder to be pre loaded into ram that you might include as part of a mark cue. Obviously you are limited by how much ram you have installed.
This doesn't seem too practical to me. Catalyst specifically does not use buffering techniques, so adding more RAM doesn't make any difference.

I tend to use .psd files for transparency stuff. If you have a nice Ultra 320 SCSI RAID array, then using mulitple layers of Animation codec movies becomes a possibility, and Animation supports an alpha channel.

Hugh