I am always amazed at the direction of a thread, but thats what the human mind does, its like free association in writing one thing leads to another and viola!
Anyway:
The problem you need to keep in mind with compressions is it looses quality and you eventually endup with a format that is for viewing only. That is to say- and MPEG file isnt a good file for source material (for compliation reels and such) I can almost guarentee that they initially asked for Uncompressed because they were loading them into an Avid System and wanted the best posible quality. Windows media and Real files are not gunna be good formats to send to them. They are small and provide the best size to quality ratios but it cant be useful once they get them. I think the best thing to do is to let us know what they do on their end (or they can do this on their own) and give us the codec for that system (IE Avid Meridian can give us an uncompressed file -which is too big- or it can give us a 2:1 or 3:1 or 10:1 and so on. A 2:1 compression would be fine and they could import this and create their DVD and what ever else they make. Take it from someone that has to make other peoples compressions work (clients send all kinds of stuff thinking I can use it any way they want- Well thats not the case) So I prefer to do as much of the compressing myself or giving explicit instructions on what I am looking for. What ever system thay use, There should be a distribution codec that we can use to make files from MAX or After Effects or What ever editor you use.
Yes this is a lot but its on the subject!!! (I think
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