I find that ist better to shut EXR with a few passes, and then convert to png from blender compositor, you can afford like...

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I find that ist better to shut EXR with a few passes, and then convert to png from blender compositor, you can afford like 40% of the time in comparison if you are rendering directly to png. PNG and JPG are super heavy in time...........that´s my experience doing render passes and stuff like that...

Answer 1 · 2017-10-26T18:09:16Z

Kent Trammell replied October 26, 2017 6:09pm

Very interesting insight ttxpetillo. I often render straight to PNG or JPG and I've also rendered to .EXR many times and I can't say I've noticed a significant difference. Maybe a few seconds for PNG compression, but it's certainly not a minute or more. So 40% time savings of 3 seconds isn't a huge deal to me. And most of the time .EXR's are much larger files which takes longer to write to disk.

Does that make sense? Or are you getting different numbers than me?