RolltheStampede wrote:Point is if we all used avi like you are suggesting and want it to play on a virgin machine with no compression the file size would be like 40gb for 5 minutes or so. mpeg or mpeg to would most likely be universally accepted because most pcs at least can play them without any other decompressors. Im not sure how that works with macs i believe the standard for macs are mov. And i believe when people using windows movie maker export there video it exports to wmv. which is not a bad codec, but frowned upon in the community for having bad quality even though that is a result of the original footage not the codec.
I frown on wmv for 1 being hard to work with (as you said, wich means TYPICALLY bad footage, in wmv's case especially the audio), but mostly for being darned near uneditable... I mean even if I want to recompress the thing to a lower bitrate for archiving I have to be a freaking rocket scientist!! I've seen awesome .wmv's, .mov's, .rm's I wouldn't think lowly of them... in .mov's case they are just plain 'slow'. Editing in 24fps is another question entireley.
