Quality of time lapse from images I'm planning on creating a time lapse from a series of still images. I plan to shoot the images in raw (Nikon NEF, Adobe RGB), then edit with Photoshop and export as jpegs (highest quality). I am planning on then putting them into an NLE (either FCPX, Resolve, or Premiere Pro) to turn them into a time lapse video.

I am trying to preserve the highest quality for the final video, so my questions are:


Is this the best way to preserve quality? If not, what is?
Also, what will the final quality be? (In terms of retained data?) ie: is there enough data retained, such that if I export it as ProRes4444 there will be more information than ProRes4:2:2? Or is there already such reduced quality that it won't matter?


I understand that this question may be poorly worded, but I believe it is on-topic and relevant, so please edit it or comment for clarification.
You are approaching the problem at hand very well, you have however not used the most quality-preserving solution available. 
I recommend that you take your raw image files and import them into Adobe After Effects as a camera raw sequence. This will let you work with the files directly in their raw format and therefore retaining the most quality. From there, you can choose to export in a lossless format if you so desire.
Using this method, you should see a better quality from ProRes 4444 than ProRes 422.


Best of luck