[Mazin]

Every year, people ask the question, "Why does Autodesk make us use such a crappy codec? DV video is omghueg!!" DV is a good lowest-common-denominator codec, although the file size is unfortunate. It's best known for being the codec used on those DV camcorders (low processing power and magnetic tape storage).

"Why can't we use something like DivX or MPEG4?" you might ask. I'll spare you the lecture on the benefits of XviD as a superior alternative or the ambiguity of the term MPEG-4.

Well, after you submit your animation to Autodesk in their required form, you should consider encoding another version using H.264 and AAC. You get great-quality video and audio and incredibly small filesizes, and the file will play on QuickTime, MPlayer, VLC, or Windows Media Player (WMP may need extra codecs lawl).

Disclaimers:
This process is a bit more involved than a Premiere option, and you will need plenty of disk space. (2 gigs might be enough. Who knows.)

Here goes: