Managing video format ...

Hi,
Maybe this is all easy stuff, but for now it seems very complicated.
I am trying to better understand how to create, edit and manage video files. I am mostly concerned about all the diffrent formats available. For sure I cannot keep a version of the file in each format, so can somebody help me or direct me where I can better understand all these format, there use and need: avi, mp4, m4v, mkv, and more and more and more ...
I am an ordinary father that wants to keep familly video made with my present photo camera or with a video HD camera that I want to buy soon. I want to keep an archive of the best format and then later export it to another format depending of the needs:
1. add the file to my video in iTunes to stream to an Apple TV device
2. burn the file to a rewritable DVD and play it on my DVD player
Thanks in advance.

2. burn the file to a rewritable DVD and play it on my DVD player
Do you intend to use iDVD for this? If that's the case it won't matter a lot which format you use as iDVD will reduce the image down to 640 x 480 during the encoding before burning. This post describes the formats supported by iDVD: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8436154#8436154.
I suggest you pose your question in the iDVD forum and the iMovie forum to get more info.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

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Thank you Rick for this interesting explanations and the links to articles.
In the past few days I performed a few tests in After Effects and it is interesting that you mention that cameras, like the Sony EX3, allow videos to have embedded color profiles. I am not working myself with cameras but either get footage from the internet or sometimes videos from our video department which produces videos with professional SONY cameras, usually I get them in a matrox mxf format.
As far as my test with After Effects show it is not possible to embed color profiles in the videos rendered with After Effects. Independent of the color profile in the working space and independent from the color profile in the output module I always get the same reaction if I reimport videos rendered by After Effects back to After Effects:
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In contrast videos made in the formats Quicktime/JPEG2000, Quicktime/Motion JPEG A, Quicktime/Motion JPEG B, Quicktime/MPEG-4, Quicktime/Animation are always interpreted as sRGB (even if if I made them in other color profiles, such as Adobe RGB, Photo RGB, HDTV); only this time I can change the interpretation rule. Therefore if I know for example that if I had selected Photo RGB in the Output module I can change after the reimport the interpretation rule from sRGB to Photo RGB and only then I get again the original colors.
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There is no such format for movies or even Photographs. Frankly we can't guarantee the persistence of any format past the next 10 years, not to mind 50 - 70.
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Best I can suggest is to keep your movies on volatile media like Hard Disks (with back ups on other disks, or course). Progress will be evolutionary - as new formats come along there will be the option to migrate older data to these newer formats, and that's the trick. As always, when it comes to migration, the more data available the better the likely result, so keeping your movies in the least compressed versions possible seems a good approach.
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TD

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Hi,
I'm trying to change the video format of my webcam
using JMF from it's default of 320x240 to 640x480
which it does support. However I am having problems.
Can anyone help please?
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