I don’t recall there being a course that focuses on that specifically, but each scene is different and the optimization settings for one don’t work on another. Normally you see tinkering with the render settings when it comes the time to render on a course.
For the file format again it will depend. PNG is normally the go to, EXR if you’re doing lots of compositing and changing brightness and values, TIF is also for higher quality and at 16 bit color depth again for when your tinkering in compositing. It will all depend, EXR will take much more disk space, so maybe you don’t have enough so you go with PNG, and so on and so forth. It’s not a straight up topic.
