resolution and compression

[vjcharm]

Okay, so I've been doing a lot of hacking around with video clips trying to get them to play as smoothly as possible, with different codecs and resolutions, and here is what I have found (keep in mind I am new to video processing).

Resolume suggests converting everything to 320 x 240, when I tried doing this in PRemiere Pro, it made everything look like crap, and all boxy looking and pixelly. Also, the codec I found to work the best is something called cinepak, all the rest made it very choppy playback. Anyway, I guess I don't understand resolution or something, because I downloaded some stuff from starloops.net that was 320x240 and it looked fine, yet my clips looked like shite? btw, this is after recompressing the same clips about 5 or 6 times.

[nwonknu]

Avoid cinepak. Indeo 5.1 is better, or m-jpeg.
320x240 is to low for nowdays. Use 640x480 or 720x576.
And you're right, resoulme likes only one resolution.

[bart]

When you're rendering clips to use in resolume it's better not to use square pixels 720x576 because this is not 4:3 which your tv-out is. Use 768x576 square pixels because that is 4:3.

And when you,re using Indeo 5.1 set the quality to 100% and you,ll have good image quality and smooth playback.

[nwonknu]

Yes my mistake, its 768