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

AVI would be best, small file sizes and way easier to manipulate than .wmv

On AVI files you can use a lot of free programs, neither .mov nor .wmv offer that opportunity to my knowledge.

Altough WMA would be much easier for an upcoming fansite with charts etc, so users could submit their Moviestorm vids as well on the site to get up in the charts along with The Movies movies!

How about two choices: WMA and AVI?

wma? you mean wmv right? well anyway most fan sites will support avi as well cause divx web player is very nice. actually any thin i made i prefer flv or swf cause flash is easy to stream and not much lag.

I'll be running all the shots out to an external suite of programs (paid good money for Adobe Production Premium so I'm gonna use it) and doing zero finishing in Moviestorm - so I'm one of those who will be looking for an uncompressed AVI with alpha channel capabilities... although I will work with uncompressed Quicktime if that is what you choose to go with.

My Red camera will be using Redcode which is a Quicktime based format natively so I'll be using that anyway.

i voted avi.

i think wmv support might be a good thing since more then a handful of people might only have windows movie maker and i'm not sure if that supports rendering to avi

i hate to say this but...using premiere pro 2.0 i have actually had good results rendering to wmv over avi when it comes down to the final size of the file and quality of image.

When we're talking the rendering out for the end viewer I've found WMV to consistently create one of the best quality to size videos. It is actually a rather good compressed format.

While usable on a Mac and Linux, it does take extra steps and some users won't go through the effort simply because of an anit-Microsoft bias.

On the edit line and especially when compositing, the 4:4:4 AVI is a really good choice.

We should really be able to export to whatever codecs are installed on the system. Huffman RGB lossless-ish was always the way I used to do video.

But I guess we'll always need a Moviestorm defined fallback.

It's all a bit apples and oranges though, isn't it? WMV and QT are video formats, whereas AVI is a container format, and could have any old video format behind it. I don't trust AVI because i've no way of knowing what the video format is and without that, I can't tell whether program X will support it.

Personally I'd like MPEG 2, for ease of subtitling DVD style, but I suppose the license costs are unworkable. So I'd be happy with anything lossless that I can throw into a DVD maker package.