GIF is always an option lol. I don't believe you can embed a depth pass in a tga pretty much all formats have pluses and minuses go with what your comp software likes. I like to use exr https://www.openexr.com/ when I'm rendering out passes in MR. Otherwise just use any of maya's lossless formats Do yourself a big big favor and get some compositing software. Dave I'll render to PNG since the Vdub can't read TIFF and there is no TGA option in my MR... If I'd use After Effects, what good will it do though? Can it mix different videos into a single one? Can it add text over image such as subtitles? (seems I am in need of a mixer, Video Pad just doesn't work right). And Vdub seems to work fine with PNG. Is PNG a good or bad choice?