Hi friends,

I have made short 60 frames animation which is exported from Poser using lossless Lagarith codec. I use this codec to import animation into PremierePro. What I need is 60 separate PNG files (frames) as output, besides original AVI file. I would like to skip rendering every frame seperately using FireFly and converting them to PNG format. Premiere has option to export frames as BMP and TIFF files , but images loose on their quality. Also, animation background should stay transparent. Any usefull tips? Is there anything that can save my time and automaticly create those PNG files from AVI source file?

Thank you! 

If you have AviSynth installed on your system, I can provide a script that should convert the source videos to alpha-channeled PNGs.

This doesn't help now, but you did do it back to front :) In future render a sequence of png's from Poser, in PremierePro you can import png's which can keep their transparency, you can drop the action png's into one sequence, backgrounds in another and then layer the sequences in a third. You can also add effects to sequences, including movement & scaling just as you would to a movie clip.

Quote - If you have AviSynth installed on your system, I can provide a script that should convert the source videos to alpha-channeled PNGs.

That would be great. Thank you

 It will probably be a lot more time consuming to futz around with your current AVI than to just to re render out 60 frames in Poser as PNG frames. You can do that automatically in Poser so all you have to do is set it up and let it go. Messing about with converting it is likely to cause you all sorts of problems and frustration. If it were longer, I'd say, yeah, convert.