Quote - You are best to render individual stills and then compost them using a video editor.

Directly rendering to a video format is a problem if the render hangs. You would have to start from the beginnig of the render sequence.

Rendering to picture files, you just pick up where you left off if there is a crash.

Thanks for the response.  I'm so new to this, how do you render individual stills?  Let's say you do a clip that has 3 or 4 hundred frames?  Is that in the render settings?  I notice in render settings/movie settings the formats available are image, ipod,ipad, android etc.  Would it be image?  If the goal is a video for a website, which way would you go?  Some web designers create several formats geared toward various browsers, is what you're talking about something that still allows that?