You have three possibilities, Windows Media, Quicktime and Real Video. Or you can use all three. Vegas outputs easily to these formats.

Quicktime is my favorite. Plays great on Macs of course and most PC users usually have it as well.

I haven't put together a website for a while but when I did I found Quicktime's online documentation easier to grasp then Microsofts and I was able to intergrate auto start Quicktime movies very simply on a normal non-streaming Web server. Quicktime has this feature that without a streaming server, you can still download and view a video clip in a browser's Quicktime Player simultaneously. Maybe Windows Media has that now as well.

Lots of documentation on how to use HTML and Quicktime here:

http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/

Good luck,


MB

I just did this!

Actually, not for web but to e-mail a small video I took with an MJPEG-capable still camera.

I tried both Quicktime and WMV and wasn't happy with the results. Then I started messing with the WMV settings, reduced the frame rate to 15fps and changed a few other settings(reduced the time between important frames to 2 seconds from 4 for better quality, reduced the sharpness a little). I now have a 320x200 x 15fps video clip, 34 seconds long with significant motion, running at only a little over a megabyte. Perfect for my needs, anyway.

Until tonight, I had only used Vegas for high end stuff like DVD authoring where quality was critical. I was very pleased to learn tonight that it works great for the other end of the spectrum, too: I can edit small video clips just as easily as the full size ones, try rendering to different codecs and settings until I get what I want.

-Jayson