FC & Text Overlays - format of text clip

[CazWax]

Hi folks,

I've been dorking around with text overlays - bottom thirds and what not, and I've noticed that sometimes I need to render and other times FCP7 is quite happy to display in RT w/out rendering.

This lead me to wonder what the format of a generated hunk of text actually is when it's dragged into the timeline.

[Cools]

Probably some sort of internal still image format. Maybe some derivative of the LiveType Decompressor or even Animation codec.