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Yup. I'm a WMV guy, just because I've been using the Windows Media Encoder for a long time and I understand it. It's easy. It's free. Fuck it. I've never been able to find an MPG encoder that I can use as well, not to say one doesn't exist, I just haven't found one.
Myself, I might try FLV. At one point I was pretty good in Flash. You can do so much more with FLV because you have control of the player and the content. Like someone said you can work in Flash to create the SWF file that then downloads and plays the FLV file. The possibilities are limitless. Basically, any animation you see on television, you can do or approximate in Flash, and you can have the movie playing at the same time: Imagine your trailers looking like the Monday Night Football promos.
The only problem I had with Flash was it's a goddamn motherfucking pain in the ass to use. You gotta use it everyday to remember all the ActionScript and the quirks of the klugy fucking interface that takes forever just to tell it to spin a ball around. I just don't have time to fuck around with it anymore.
But as far as just using a utility to encode FLVs, well, FLVs, might be the way to go, if not now, for the future. They are streaming and they look good. You don't have to do fancy stuff with them. You can just use them for straight movies, and, who knows, one day Adobe might actually make Flash plausible to use for the average video editor, a kind of hybrid of Premier Pro and After Effects.
Kesey Seven
We Be Lez
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