A few quick questions from someone halfway through starting their first video:
1) What aspect ratio should be used? I'm thinking 320X240 for web distribution and if I ever want to make a video to be shown at a convention that should be 640X480. Am I correct?
2) How much are non-standard videos tolerated? For example, the one I plan on teaching myself video editing with is a Lain/Dance Dance Revolution video where I plan on having in game footage with Lain edited in as the dancer. I like the idea, but there's no way it'd make a good 3 or 4 minute video. I've done some basic editing on it and have it at 1;17 length now. Is this type of thing generally accepted or is it looked down on? I'm going to do it regardless of the answer, I want to know if I should bother to distribute it when I'm done?
3) Maybe it's just me, but Divx sucks. Besides Divx what compression is typically used? I would like to use a good looking codec that most people would already have instaled.
4) I know about masking in Permiere, but in order to fit the dance movements there's going to be almost no place where two frames in a row come from the same Lain source video. Because of this I'm thinking I'll have to photoshop each frame together, am I correct or is there a better way?

