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Reviewing important output settings

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Reviewing important output settings

I would say that the codec du jour, the standard codec that people are tending to work with these days, is definitely H.264. Particularly for web delivery and for a reasonable quality file. DSLR cameras shoot into it. Effectively it's MPEG-4, and a lot of variance in that tier of encoding are supplying similar results, but you can't be certain of absolute compatibility everywhere. These days if you give anybody an H.264 file, they're going to be able to play it regardless of their platform. A while back, you used to be able to use flash video for distribution on a wide range of platforms. But with the whole process of iOS devices not supporting that file type or that codec, it meant that, broadly speaking, people tended away from it and leaned in towards using HTML5 for animation and H.264 as a video codec. Now putting aside any question about the politics of that and the reasons and the whys and the wherefores, at the end of the day, H.264 is a great format and it's a good delivery…

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