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Use the codec that gives you the nicest results. Stop worrying about legacy support - you should be doing this for yourself, not for other people. Using Compressor (which I'm assuming you have) set up a couple of exports - H.264 using the "H.264 LAN" preset, an Xvid compression and MPEG-2. Hit go an...

Well, media has always gotten cheaper over time, I don't see why HVDs wouldn't. The same thing goes for the drives - the parts get cheaper and more multi-functional, so the drive ends up cheaper.

From the picture, that looks to me like that saturation was mucked with with, but from your description it may be more complex (a silhouetting effect) Can you link the AMV? The filters I'd play with are the "Color Corrector" and "Color Corrector 3-Way" in FCP. http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/7910...

Perfect Blue may have lighting in it, I can't remember. It does have a range of scenes with filming of a movie / a band dancing about. Plus, you should be able to find it on DVD reasonably easily.

Well, as VLC can decode H.264 in a QuickTime container, (I'm reasonably sure) Windows users don't have to install QuickTime. I'd say go ahead with encoding in H.264. I've had quite reasonable results playing around with QuickTime's H.264 encoder.