What resolutions to simulate video?

I'm making screen movies off of my Mac for some "how to" tutorials. I want to minimize scaling artifacts to keep features as legible as possible.
What size should the videos be to be most compatible with --
Regular video?
DV?
HD (720,1080)?
Am I barking up the wrong tree?
My motivation for asking is that I made some videos already that are 960x640, and it's taking forever to edit the video because the CPU appears to be continually crunching the weird format. I'd like to try again.
TIA
r.

Sorry to keep replying to myself, but I hope that the information will be useful to somebody in the future.
In experimentation, I also discovered that 4:3 DV is packed to 640x480, but 16:9 anamorphic DV retains the 720x480 resolution.

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