How to become a better Video editor...

Ok the title is a little deceptive.

I assume most people don't want to learn, couldn't care less .... about the technical details and nuances that come with digital video editing, video encoding and video conversion or transcoding. And I agree 1000% :)

But to be honest the only way to make sense out of all these things is to study a bit and learn about what you're up against. At the minimum you should have this links somewhere so that if you see an acronym or term you don't understand you can go and read about it. READ, such an underrated tool...

So without further ado, here are some good links for information:

So what do Nokia S60 devices support?; well see this:
Nokia Video Feature table (press "Audio & Video Features tables")
Unfortunately not all the information on that Table is accurate. E.G. In there it shows the N91 supporting 320x240 h264 AVC which is incorrect, it only supports QCIF h264.

If you don't know what QCIF means go HERE.

A good guide about "anamorphic video" and why should you care. No, honestly this is a must if you are encoding videos from a DVD and want to get rid of those pesky black bars. AnamorphicGuide
If you still feel like you need to get to the bottom of the resolution issues. READ this it's a really good page.

Video Containers (these are those extensions we see but are different that codecs)

Different Video Codecs (Must read this)

DVD video Highly recommended to read.

MPEG-4

MPEG-4 Video stuff

MPEG-4 Part 2 Divx, Xvid and Quicktime

MPEG-4 levels

Video Codec (what's a video codec really?)

Mpeg industry forum

This is not an extensive list and by no means do I encourage people to become experts. But if you are of a technical inquisitive nature, then go and learn about it, and then come back and teach me a thing or two ;)

Cheers!