Your movies: Which file format would you prefer them to be in?

I vote for uncompressed AVI. It's easy and portable to many other applications like Adobe After Effects, Combustion, Adobe Premiere, etc.

For me an AVI/DivX as I've found this is the best quality for my meagre attempts.

I agree with the above, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest xvid? Perhaps a little behind, but also cheap... Others may be able to have a more informed opinion about that than me, though.

Also, what about frame dumps? Where the user can send the movie as sequentially numbered files to a directory? Either in PNG or JPG formats, based on user selection. This can help with compatibility with other programs or rotoscoping in photoshop or a few other things, I can't think of at the moment.

I voted avi as well, but most non-computer-techie-people that I know may lean towards the windows media player format...

Personally, I cannot stand quicktime, that would be one of the few file formats I would choose to avoid...

.AVI - no doubt.

I also like AVI and the only reason I chose WMV is because I just compiled a movie with AVI and found the file to be very large at the same quality than the WMV file. The same file in WMV was only 1/2 gig and in AVI it was 11 gigs. Just too large a file to upload to the internet. I might try again as when I compiled it, I didn't notice any ability to compress it.

I use Pinnacle Stuidio 10 for my post production editing and with that program you can save to all the different file formats. So anything is good for me as long as the end result is not too large a file or a file that is not recognized by sites like VEOH or Ifilm.

Any file format is fine, as long as uncompressed AVI is included. I prefer to control my own compression after editing in an NLE.

For the Mac version, i would prefer Quicktime. Many related Apple applications are quicktime based, such as iMovie and Final Cut Pro, which i use. I would like to utilize those apps with your exciting product if possible.

I'm going with DivX, although I believe there should be at least two formats.

I think it would be great if you had a menu choice such as export AS and then you can select the format you want from a drop down menu, but if the movies we make are only allowed to be uploaded to the Moviestorm website then you should select the format that best suits your requirements.

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I think I read we were allowed to keep the rights to our movies, we just had to put in something about Moviestorm

If only one is available, I'd say AVI. But hope there are alternative choices.

I voted for the .avi format. It is a good format, and easily allows those that likes to convert their works to DVDs. Any format can be converted back and forth though, the major problem I would foresee is when it comes down to website hosting. Then, the format with the maximal compression for space is probably an option to also consider.

If I had to choose between the three I'd go with Divx. Although I'd rather have as many options as possible. I believe an earlier poster replied that the option to export uncompressed is always there. So even if only one format is chosen you can always bring your uncompressed render into another program and compress it however you like.

Carl wrote:

Also, what about frame dumps? Where the user can send the movie as sequentially numbered files to a directory? Either in PNG or JPG formats, based on user selection. This can help with compatibility with other programs or rotoscoping in photoshop or a few other things, I can't think of at the moment.

What he said!