Rendering Profiles

Here is a first attempt at defining a list of useful “common scenarios” exporting profiles. Each profile serves to limit the incredible amount of codecs/settings combinations to keep them relevant to the user's intended publishing medium. If the user doesn't fit in those presets, he probably knows what he is doing/what he wants and will use the “Custom...” approach, or perhaps make his own preset for later reuse.

• Tapes and disks / (“publishing”?)
  • DVD
    • NTSC, PAL, etc.
  • ~~VCD and SVCD~~
    • Obsolete. Who still uses them these days, when you can burn inexpensive DVDs and you can even burn Blu-ray?
  • DV
    • (intended for almost-lossless editing, for back-up, or exporting to tape...)
  • HDV
  • High Definition / Bluray
    • (don't know if bluray has anything specific compared to regular HD)
• Devices
  • iPod / iPhone / iWhatever
  • PlayStation 3
• Internet
  • HTML 5 streaming video
    • Theora + Vorbis with the streaming-friendly switches
    • ~~Maybe H.264~~
    • Webm VP8
    • A bitrate calculator that takes into amount the server's available upload bandwidth and amount of simultaneous connections would be a nice feature
  • Youtube / Vimeo / Blip / DailyMotion / Google Video / Facebook / Myspace
    • Support limitations of each? For example, filesize and duration. Timelines longer than the maximum duration could be automatically split into multiple parts if the user wishes it.
  • Email
    • (I see “normal” people emailing themselves videos quite often)
    • maybe the same as for HTML 5 video
  • Flash video (for embedding in Flash files)
• Other
  • Video for OpenOffice presentations (intended for easy embedding in an Impress slideshow)
  • Preview/draft (low resolution, low quality, optimized for speed, intended for rendering quickly and having a preview)
  • Custom...