What dimensions for big-screen presentation?

Almost everything I do is for presentations for either my employer or my church. I've experimented with WMV, MOV, and AVI but I'm still not sure what will look best that large. Since there are no rulers in FCE's Canvas or Viewer and I haven't found a place when creating a project to specify the dimensions like in Flash. The only time I'm "sort of" prompted for dimensions is when exporting from QuickTime Pro and those settings don't seem large enough but perhaps I'm mistaken. Is there a web site I could go to for such info?

FCE is a fixed resolution application, DV or HDV only.
How is the material you're presenting getting onto a screen? Computer playback? Projector? Playing back from a deck? That's the governing factor, that and the format you're working in. Video formats have fixed sizes unless they're being put on a web, where they can be any shape you want.
The higher resolution format you start with the better the end display will look. Shoot in DV and there's a limit to how large you can make the image before it becomes objectionable. Good shooting and good lighting will go a long, long way to making even DV material look good on a big screen.

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