Transcoding file formats for Internet

[AVITRY]

Hi all. I'm not sure I'm posting under the best category, but I'll be making my transcode in one video editing program or another so I hope I'm ok here.

While I've done many analog to digital to DVD conversions, I've never had a need to upload anything to the internet. I have a friend who wants to post something to the internet and I have a few questions if I may.

1. I think I have the least trouble using the WMV format since I have PE2 and don't think it supports the newer formats. Will this be ok?

2. Take a look at the link I included if you would. Down near the bottom it says be sure to deinterlace before uploading. This threw me off a bit. I assumed that any file format specially designed for the internet would automatically be deinterlaced. I don't even recall seeing a place to deinterlace. Do I have to rt. click on the timeline and deinterlace if I'm saving to WMV?

http://www.magnify.net/support/docs/Sup ... rmats.html

thanks for helping me understand the process.

joe

[Steve Grisetti]

WMV is certainly the most universal format for streaming over the Internet. (Just use the Cable Modem preset.) Quicktime (MOV) runs a close second -- though, for my money, it looks better.

As for whether or not to de-interlace, others may disagree but I'm with you. You don't need to de-interlace WMVs or Quicktime files because they're optimized for viewing on a computer.

[ed]

I believe WMV spits out deinterlaced, with Quicktime this is not the case, depending on what software you use to do the encoding. I use Quicktime Pro, and you definetly have to check a deinterlace checkbox in the settings for this.