2nd that on doing uncompressed in Max. If for some reason you can't, I commonly use indeo 5.1 with NO compression, which still gives a good 50% reduction in size. As to the final product, unless you know EXACTLY what equipment it'll be showing on, I would suggest you do 2 versions on the same CD: 1 version for PC users, probably in MPG-1 format, and another for the other guys, in a quicktime .mov format. For my personal stuff, i have a lot of faith in wme / asf format; compression almost as good as DivX, and pretty much anyone with IE4 or better can see them.