Wizard
  step1: Background
>step2:
  Medium-format
  step3: Mood
  step4: Logo Effect
  step5: Foreground
  step6: Order
  step7: Materials

STEP2: Medium and format

• In Step 2 of wizard, you can select your desired medium and then a proper format for the selected medium.
  
  -What's medium?
  -What's format?
  -What happens when I let CGtemplates choose the best format for me at step2 ?
  -How the price is defined?
  -What's resolution?
  -What if I need several mediums and formats?
  -Can I order a format that is not in wizard?
   

• Tips in selecting formats:
  
  -Video DVD medium
  -Video CD medium
  -Portable CD medium
  -Cell phone (mobile) medium
  -Web medium
  -Print Media Medium
  
  

• What's medium?
  Medium is the target media. Medium can be Video DVD, Video CD, Portable CD, Cell-phone, Web, Print Media, etc.
  
  

• What's format?
  After selecting desired medium, a format needs to be selected for that medium.
  Each medium has its own standard formats.
  As an example while 3GP format is proper for cell-phone, it can not be used in a Video-CD which uses Mpeg1 format.
  
  

• What happens when I let CGtemplates choose the best format for me at step2 ?
  CGtemplates charges you the specified amount that is written in the wizard for having a CGtemplates expert selecting the best format that suit your needs.
  When the money is received, CGtemplates contacts you asking to provide CGtemplates with information of your template usage, etc. Based on these information an expert selects the best format for you. When the chosen format is confirmed by you, you'll be given a link to pay for your order and production phase begins.
  
  

• How the price is defined?
  The price considerably varies among mediums.
  Generally what defines the price is the resolution.
  
  

• What's resolution?
  resolution is movie width and height in pixels.
  
  

• What if I need several mediums and formats?
  You can order an additional format later at step 6 for the same medium.
  However after an order is placed, in a period of one month of purchase date, additional Mediums, Formats of the same template-clip can be ordered with a discount of
  up to %75.
  Contact us for more information.
  
  

• Can I order a format that is not in wizard?
  Sure, Cgtemplates encoding software packages support most of the world popular formats.
  There is an exception that we do not provide uncompressed files online.
  Uncompressed files will be posted on CD or DVD.
  Please contact us for more information.

Tips in selecting formats:

Video DVD medium:

The difference between DVD-Video and MPEG2 formats comes from DVD files limitations and specifications. Every DVD-Video motion file is MPEG2 but not every MPEG2 is proper to be used in DVD.
Later when your files are ready you can choose to receive elementary video, audio files or multiplexed ones.
If you’re ordering a DVD-Menu, you’ll be received menu files in Adobe Photoshop & Encore DVD formats.

Still Image: Still Image is an image file proper to be used in DVD as menu background or in the movie itself as still image. (It's not animated.)

Video CD medium:

MPEG1 file: Mpeg1 file is proper to be used in making a Video-CD.

Still Image: Still image is an image file or a 5 second Mpeg1 file of the still image which can be used in a Video-CD opening, etc. (It's not animated.)

Portable CD medium:

Flash: Flash format is the recommended one since it can be played as standalone file needless to any other player to be installed before. You can receive your final file either in FLV, SWF or EXE files.

QuickTime: QuickTime player is installed on all Macs and is popular among pc users too. The quality/file size ratio is be better than Flash.

Windows Media: Considering Windows Media quality/file size ratio which is higher than QuickTime and its popularity, it is a recommended one too.

DivX: DivX format is not recommended. Although The quality/file size ratio is better than others, many users have problems in playing DivX files.

Real: no comment.

Still Image: Still image is one image file which can be used as background, etc.
(It's not animated.)

Cell phone (mobile) medium

Screensaver: Screen savers are in animated gif format. You can receive two files for flip-open and flip-close modes of your cell phone.

Still Image: Still image is an image which can be used as cell-phone background image.

Cell phones with Symbian Operating System:
3GP & MP4 are movie formats (animated). Choosing between 3GP and MP4 does not make much difference. Most of the cell-phones work with both formats. If ordered format doesn’t work on your cell-phone, you can request to receive your order in the other format for free.

Cell phones with Windows Operating System:
Windows Media: Windows media is the recommended movie format for cell-phones with Windows Operating system.



When your order is placed, you can request up to 4 different resolutions for cell-phones to be sent to you with no additional cost.

Web medium

Flash: Flash format is the recommended one since Flash Player plug-in is installed on more than 95% of PCs connected to internet and you can have custom look-shape player to play your movie. You can receive your final file either in FLV or SWF. You’ll also be provided with several custom look-shape players for free.

QuickTime: QuickTime player is installed on all Macs and is popular among pc users too. The quality/file size ratio is better than Flash.

Windows Media: Considering Windows Media quality/file size ratio which is higher than QuickTime and its popularity, it is a recommended one too.

DivX: DivX format is not recommended. Although The quality/file size ratio is better than others, many users have problems in playing DivX files.

Real: No comment.

Still Image: Still image is an image file which can be used in your web page.
(It's not animated.)



Resolution:
resolution is movie width and height in pixels.
There are several predefined popular resolutions in the combo box to be chosen from. You can define yours by selecting “Custom size”.
The Background price is defined based on the size of your choice.
Please note that as resolution increases, file size is also increased which must be taken into consideration for web target audience.

Click here to see the Standard web banner sizes chart

Print Media Medium

TIFF image format is strongly recommended for print purposes. If you are on low-speed internet connections, then JPG format can be a good choice too since the files size is much less than TIFF.

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