Hi, My name is Ben, I'm from Sydney Australia and I love animating. I'm currently working on an animated podcast and I would really appreciate your opinion on which formats I should provide.
Right now I'm thinking of rendering out a 640x360 version and encoding it as a H264/AAC MP4, then uploading it to Blip.tv where their system will take care of transcoding it to FLV and an iPod compatible M4V, that gets the episode online relatively quickly and with little trouble. Thing is I also want to offer proper HD as an option so after that I'll render out a 1920x1080 version, then scale a copy to 1280x720 before encoding them both to H264/AAC MP4 again and adding them as additional HDTV files on Blip.tv. As you've already noticed I'm planning to stick to widescreen formats, fact is designing for both 4:3 and 16:9 would be a bit of a pain and I'd rather have video's that'll play nice with future video standards that are already being adopted rather than what's currently common. What do you reckon? I am really looking forward to your responses and participating with the community, Thanks!
