if you had to choose a format

[Alexander Gao]

I would personally choose H.264 Quicktime. That would be an efficient yet high quality format, easy to stream or download, and pretty much universally playable.

Alexander Gao

“When the revolution happens, I’ll be leading it.”

[Ben Oliver]

i usually compress sorenson three quicktime, a lot of people havent upgraded there quicktimes i find……the losers. lol

im not really worried about codecs, just more about format….codecs are a whole other headache!

[David Roth weiss]

[thewanggao] “H.264 Quicktime… pretty much universally playable.”

Not really!!!

[Bob Auiler]

H.264 is amazing, but I run into a problem with a couple of our larger clients who won’t allow anyone to update applications on their computers.

Windows Media 9 is a very good choice if you need compatability and good quality.

[Matthew Brunn]

I compress videos to be downloaded by businesses and personal use all the time and this is my experience. If you have a savvy customer Quicktime is great. H.264 is superior quality. If you are looking for UNIVERSAL playback it’s unfortunately Mpeg-1. I have yet to find a customer that can’t play it. Window Media is next. Then Quicktime.

For quality that depends again on your delivery and bandwidth. If these people are on dial up they ain’t waitin for some 36 MB file to download. For me it’s a snap. It’s a balance. How big a file (quality) vs. the delivery plus Format (QT,WMV,MPEG) = answer.

Hope this helps-
Matthew
Dual 500 G4
OSX 10.3.5
Ram 1.38
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3

[Ed Dooley]

Ditto, for the most part. We’re starting to include FLVs in the mix. And as soon as Flash 8 gets on more machines, we’ll be doing a lot more.
Ed

[Matthew Brunn] “I compress videos to be downloaded by businesses and personal use all the time and this is my experience. If you have a savvy customer Quicktime is great. H.264 is superior quality. If you are looking for UNIVERSAL playback it’s unfortunately Mpeg-1. I have yet to find a customer that can’t play it. Window Media is next. Then Quicktime.

For quality that depends again on your delivery and bandwidth. If these people are on dial up they ain’t waitin for some 36 MB file to download. For me it’s a snap. It’s a balance. How big a file (quality) vs. the delivery plus Format (QT,WMV,MPEG) = answer.
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