Animation workflow query

Hi!
I'm just nailing down the workflow of a short animation I'm making, and require a little bit of light shed on the situation.
The broad workflow is:
1: Each shot of the animation will be created in After Effects
2: Render a Master and an Offline version of each shot
3: Perform offline cut in FCP
4: Re-link offline cut to Master files
5: Grade in Color, send back to FCP
6: Export final mastered video
Specifically, I just want to run through the Color/onlining part of the workflow.
I was thinking the best Master version of each shot would be a tiff image sequence - but is there a better alternative re: working in Color?
Should I convert my image sequences to Pro Res 444 movies, and then use those as the Master files for sending to Color?
Presumably I could then render out a Pro Res 444 graded video from Color, then send this back to FCP for the final video with sound?
Many thanks for any help offered
Will

Depending on the speed (Bitrate) that your system can support (and your version of FCP/COLOR, but you must be on 7/1.5 if you're talking about 4:4:4:4 ProRes), the TIFF sequence might make a couple of percent difference in the final analysis -- and this might be important if you are prepping this for a film-out.
If your final deliverable is Quicktime/Web or videotape, you are wasting your time, resources and patience going the TIFF sequence route and you will find the ProRes trip far easier to manage.
Beware that you will likely encounter a lot of gamma coefficient issues no matter what route you choose.
jPo

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    Krish

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