Codec Central- a great site for answers to your Codec questions. Link
Apple QuickTime Link
Creative Cow – this is a site filled with people that are professionals in their field- for video, audio, animation, video editing- you’ll find help from people that know their stuff. Link
Digital Producer- A great source of information for everything in graphics. Link
I see these acronyms all the time, but what do they mean?
AVI—Audio Video Interleaved. A Windows format that typically runs video at 15 frames per second (fps) and audio at 11 kiloHertz.
BMP—Bitmap file. Windows bitmap format for still graphics.
JPEG—Joint Photographic Experts Group. An ISO standard for compressing still images. It is not associated with any particular platform.
MOV—A full motion video format typically associated with native QuickTime multimedia.
MP3—MPEG Audio Layer 3. Audio file that compresses CD quality sound by a factor of 12.
MPEG—Motion Pictures Experts Group. An ISO Standard for compressing video at 30 fps and CD quality sound.
TIFF—Tagged Image File Format. Bitmapped graphics file that allows for many compression options, including “none” for lossless quality.
WAV—Windows audio format that can sample up to 44 kiloHertz.