encoding solutions

[hito]

Hello, congratulations on the latest release of ffmpegx and the continuing of the development of the program, thank you!
I am about to start a work with video which I believe ffmpegx will be most important, and I need your help in sucessfully making the encodings, I hope major can help me.

I have movies in vob. (from mactheripper work) which I would like to convert to a format that would easily allow the freedom to create new image compositions, the idea is to create new compositions of movie segments with the segments I have from the original vob. files. (re-editing might be the name).
There are two more things the format choosen for the encoding is required to allow. 1. That the new aspect ratio for the encoded material needs to de 2.35:1 (in any film or clip encoded). 2. That the quality maintains the most accuratly to the original vob. file.

My first question is which may the file format be? H.264? Has this a investment in the medium/long term I would to now if the H.264 files can later be worked in iMovie HD or Final Cut Pro.
Please advise me on this.

Thank You

hito

[major]

You may try MOV MPEG-4, however for frame-precise editing you should also enable "Use only I-frames" which will lead to big files. Another possibility is DV however it has a fixed size of PAL or NTSC.