Best graphic file type?

Could anyone shed some wisdom on which is the best file type (bmp. png. jpeg. etc..) to use with FCP and which deals with compression best please?
I'm compressing to H.264 for the iPod and would really like to lose as little quality as possible with the graphics.
Thanks

Well it matters so far as I want the graphics to look as sharp as the video and also as sharp as the designer created them! ..I ask alot I know!! < </div>
When you take a full size DV frame down to iPod frame, you reduce the size by 50% but you reduce the number of available pixels by a far less agreeable number. Roughly speaking, using big round numbers: DV: about 700x500=350,000 pixels. iPod: roughly 250x350=87,500 pixels, one fourth the total number of discreet picture elements.
Here's how you do the best darned graphics for iPod.
1. Get all of your editing done.
2. Reduce it to iPod size in the encoder of choice.
3. Import it into a new project scaled for iPod.
4. Now, you go to CS-2 or LiveType and create all of your graphics in the native iPod-size format. They cannot possibly get any better because they are not being scaled or processed in any way whatsoever.
5. Render, lossless if possible, back to the iPod codec of choice.
bogiesan

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