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What are your most common video formats?

There are three standard video formats:

MPEG-1 (Standard Format)
Moving Picture Experts Group – Standard Number 1 (MPEG-1) (Pronounced “Em-peg”) was the first universal compression standard to allow video and audio to be played on a personal computer. As the first format it is guaranteed to work with all legal software—but has a picture quality similar to VHS tape and is somewhat grainy by modern standards. However, because it works with everything, and is a small file size it is still considered the standard format and used for transcript/video synchronization. This file extension for an MPEG-1 file is .mpg.

MPEG-2 (DVD Format)
Moving Picture Experts Group – Standard Number 2 (MPEG-2) is a broadcast quality format designed for playback on a consumer DVD (Digital Video Disc) player. The file sizes for MPEG-2 are significantly larger than MPEG-1 making their use for trial preparation very problematic. This file format is not generally accepted by trial presentation software, but is sometimes used when image quality is of supreme importance. We do not synchronize transcripts in this video format.

MPEG-4
Moving Picture Experts Group – Standard Number 4 (MPEG-4) is still a developing standard but provides higher compression allowing high quality playback on personal video devices such as the Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, & others. We do not synchronize transcripts in this video format but can provide video in this format on request.

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