diff --git a/src/CacheDisk.cpp b/src/CacheDisk.cpp
index b3fd119f..c8eb5d8d 100644
--- a/src/CacheDisk.cpp
+++ b/src/CacheDisk.cpp
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Frame> CacheDisk::GetFrame(int64_t frame_number)
 			image->load(frame_path);
 
 			// Set pixel formatimage->
-			image = std::make_shared<QImage>(image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888));
+			image = std::make_shared<QImage>(image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied));
 
 			// Create frame object
 			auto frame = std::make_shared<Frame>();
diff --git a/src/FFmpegReader.cpp b/src/FFmpegReader.cpp
index dcdad2c0..2e8260c5 100644
--- a/src/FFmpegReader.cpp
+++ b/src/FFmpegReader.cpp
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ void FFmpegReader::ProcessVideoPacket(int64_t requested_frame) {
 			scale_mode = SWS_BICUBIC;
 		}
 		SwsContext *img_convert_ctx = sws_getContext(info.width, info.height, AV_GET_CODEC_PIXEL_FORMAT(pStream, pCodecCtx), width,
-															  height, PIX_FMT_RGBA, scale_mode, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+															  height, AV_PIX_FMT_RGB32, scale_mode, NULL, NULL, NULL);
 
 		// Resize / Convert to RGB
 		sws_scale(img_convert_ctx, my_frame->data, my_frame->linesize, 0,
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ void FFmpegReader::ProcessVideoPacket(int64_t requested_frame) {
 		std::shared_ptr<Frame> f = CreateFrame(current_frame);
 
 		// Add Image data to frame
-		f->AddImage(width, height, 4, QImage::Format_RGBA8888, buffer);
+		f->AddImage(width, height, 4, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied, buffer);
 
 		// Update working cache
 		working_cache.Add(f);
diff --git a/src/Frame.cpp b/src/Frame.cpp
index 8be00246..5c233aa2 100644
--- a/src/Frame.cpp
+++ b/src/Frame.cpp
@@ -221,8 +221,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<QImage> Frame::GetWaveform(int width, int height, int Red, int G
 		}
 
 		// Create blank image
-		wave_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-			total_width, total_height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		wave_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(total_width, total_height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 		wave_image->fill(QColor(0,0,0,0));
 
 		// Load QPainter with wave_image device
@@ -253,7 +252,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<QImage> Frame::GetWaveform(int width, int height, int Red, int G
 	else
 	{
 		// No audio samples present
-		wave_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		wave_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 		wave_image->fill(QColor(QString::fromStdString("#000000")));
 	}
 
@@ -614,7 +613,7 @@ void Frame::Thumbnail(std::string path, int new_width, int new_height, std::stri
 
 	// Create blank thumbnail image & fill background color
 	auto thumbnail = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-		new_width, new_height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		new_width, new_height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 	thumbnail->fill(QColor(QString::fromStdString(background_color)));
 
 	// Create painter
@@ -676,7 +675,7 @@ void Frame::Thumbnail(std::string path, int new_width, int new_height, std::stri
 
 		// Set pixel format
 		overlay = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-			overlay->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888));
+			overlay->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied));
 
 		// Resize to fit
 		overlay = std::make_shared<QImage>(overlay->scaled(
@@ -696,7 +695,7 @@ void Frame::Thumbnail(std::string path, int new_width, int new_height, std::stri
 
 		// Set pixel format
 		mask = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-			mask->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888));
+			mask->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied));
 
 		// Resize to fit
 		mask = std::make_shared<QImage>(mask->scaled(
@@ -753,7 +752,7 @@ void Frame::AddColor(int new_width, int new_height, std::string new_color)
 	const GenericScopedLock<juce::CriticalSection> lock(addingImageSection);
 	#pragma omp critical (AddImage)
 	{
-		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(new_width, new_height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(new_width, new_height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 
 		// Fill with solid color
 		image->fill(QColor(QString::fromStdString(color)));
@@ -805,9 +804,9 @@ void Frame::AddImage(std::shared_ptr<QImage> new_image)
 	{
 		image = new_image;
 
-		// Always convert to RGBA8888 (if different)
-		if (image->format() != QImage::Format_RGBA8888)
-			*image = image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		// Always convert to Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied (if different)
+		if (image->format() != QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied)
+			*image = image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 
 		// Update height and width
 		width = image->width();
@@ -836,9 +835,8 @@ void Frame::AddImage(std::shared_ptr<QImage> new_image, bool only_odd_lines)
 			if (image == new_image || image->size() != new_image->size()) {
 				ret = true;
 			}
-			else if (new_image->format() != image->format()) {
-				new_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-					new_image->convertToFormat(image->format()));
+			else if (new_image->format() != QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied) {
+				new_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(new_image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied));
 			}
 		}
 		if (ret) {
@@ -979,7 +977,7 @@ void Frame::AddMagickImage(std::shared_ptr<Magick::Image> new_image)
 
 	// Create QImage of frame data
 	image = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-		qbuffer, width, height, width * BPP, QImage::Format_RGBA8888,
+		qbuffer, width, height, width * BPP, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied,
 		(QImageCleanupFunction) &cleanUpBuffer, (void*) qbuffer);
 
 	// Update height and width
diff --git a/src/QtHtmlReader.cpp b/src/QtHtmlReader.cpp
index 4925d3a8..4da756ff 100644
--- a/src/QtHtmlReader.cpp
+++ b/src/QtHtmlReader.cpp
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void QtHtmlReader::Open()
 	if (!is_open)
 	{
 		// create image
-		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 		image->fill(QColor(background_color.c_str()));
 
 		//start painting
diff --git a/src/QtImageReader.cpp b/src/QtImageReader.cpp
index 86040bd4..b22ef22b 100644
--- a/src/QtImageReader.cpp
+++ b/src/QtImageReader.cpp
@@ -98,10 +98,6 @@ void QtImageReader::Open()
 			throw InvalidFile("File could not be opened.", path.toStdString());
 		}
 
-		// Convert to proper format
-		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-			image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888));
-
 		// Update image properties
 		info.has_audio = false;
 		info.has_video = true;
@@ -255,9 +251,6 @@ std::shared_ptr<Frame> QtImageReader::GetFrame(int64_t requested_frame)
 				max_width, max_height, Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation));
 		}
 
-		cached_image = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-			cached_image->convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGBA8888));
-
 		// Set max size (to later determine if max_size is changed)
 		max_size.setWidth(max_width);
 		max_size.setHeight(max_height);
diff --git a/src/QtTextReader.cpp b/src/QtTextReader.cpp
index bd157ebd..0bb1d741 100644
--- a/src/QtTextReader.cpp
+++ b/src/QtTextReader.cpp
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void QtTextReader::Open()
 	if (!is_open)
 	{
 		// create image
-		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		image = std::make_shared<QImage>(width, height, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 		image->fill(QColor(background_color.c_str()));
 
 		QPainter painter;
diff --git a/src/effects/Bars.cpp b/src/effects/Bars.cpp
index e653b7dd..d0dd8dbf 100644
--- a/src/effects/Bars.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/Bars.cpp
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Frame> Bars::GetFrame(std::shared_ptr<Frame> frame, int64_t fram
 
 	// Get bar color (and create small color image)
 	auto tempColor = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-		frame_image->width(), 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		frame_image->width(), 1, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 	tempColor->fill(QColor(QString::fromStdString(color.GetColorHex(frame_number))));
 
 	// Get current keyframe values
diff --git a/src/effects/Crop.cpp b/src/effects/Crop.cpp
index f0e0aa95..aa587a02 100644
--- a/src/effects/Crop.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/Crop.cpp
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Frame> Crop::GetFrame(std::shared_ptr<Frame> frame, int64_t fram
 
 	// Get transparent color (and create small transparent image)
 	auto tempColor = std::make_shared<QImage>(
-		frame_image->width(), 1, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+		frame_image->width(), 1, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 	tempColor->fill(QColor(QString::fromStdString("transparent")));
 
 	// Get current keyframe values
diff --git a/src/effects/Deinterlace.cpp b/src/effects/Deinterlace.cpp
index 984336aa..16c104c0 100644
--- a/src/effects/Deinterlace.cpp
+++ b/src/effects/Deinterlace.cpp
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ std::shared_ptr<Frame> Deinterlace::GetFrame(std::shared_ptr<Frame> frame, int64
 	const unsigned char* pixels = image->bits();
 
 	// Create a smaller, new image
-	QImage deinterlaced_image(image->width(), image->height() / 2, QImage::Format_RGBA8888);
+	QImage deinterlaced_image(image->width(), image->height() / 2, QImage::Format_ARGB32_Premultiplied);
 	const unsigned char* deinterlaced_pixels = deinterlaced_image.bits();
 
 	// Loop through the scanlines of the image (even or odd)