Newbie!!! - One Video Format to Rule them ALL?

[hydrosupplies]

Hello, I want to create a video that should work for most browsers, smart phones and of course the ipad.

I am using Adobe Premiere CS3, and I'm importing a file that was recorded on an iphone, then converted into a .wmv file, and that is being dragged and dropped into Adobe Premiere. My plan is to add an intro title, and then I am going to save/export, hopefully, in one format I can use for web and mobile browsing.

I don't know what the best choice of settings would be when I create the project.

And I don't know what would be the best output format that would work universally if that even exists.

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions that they think will help and/or point me in the right direction? I don't want to work on this project, only to find out I started the project with the wrong settings.

[MOVIEGEEK]

There really is no format to rule them all but MPEG-1 is universally supported.

[El Heggunte]

I don't want to work on this project, only to find out I started the project with the wrong settings.

That's fine. BTW, you've already done that (start your project with the wrong settings):

importing a file that was recorded on an iphone, then converted into a .wmv file,

Besides using a lossy intermediate file, you chose a bad codec (OR at least a bad implementation of it, because unless you know very well what to do, WMV will give you a festival of dropped/duplicated frames)

[hydrosupplies]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I was handed the iphone video file, converted into an mp4, wmv, m4v and then an mov file that's turned sideways and I don't know how to turn it back around.

Are any of these files better for me to work with?

[MOVIEGEEK]

As El Heggunte pointed out you shouldn't use a lossy format to edit with, use the format of the original file.
I hope you saved the original file...

[hydrosupplies]

Thanks MovieGeek, I'll see if I can get the original file and convert it to DV-AVI and then to MPEG-1