thought after thinking about it.. one could render out in any format they choose... personally i would have rendered in .png if i wanted to retain any poser transperancies... the background becomes the automatic alpha-channel. well in photoshop anyways. ive never used premiere pro. i use after effects 5.5 pro and ive never had any problems using .png's or transperancies in the image. i dont know what format himico initially rendered in and i dont wana say that any are better or worse than .png... i dont wana make any statements to that effect but i will say, ive goten nothing but good results from .png (which is also losless) and have never found a reason to render to .tiff or .psd. i use .psd to work in photoshop, i wouldnt ever consider using it as an imported file-type. though i understand the poserGUI is all .psd. i dont think 'outside' the box like some people. im a pretty good guesser.