Which is more popular 1440 or 1920? by 1020

I've got an HDRFX1E and it only does 1440x 1020 but looking at everyone's clips they're all 1920 and they sell more, is 1920 what the buyers use now?

Is 1440 on the way out? am I wasting my time?
What should I do?

I have however noticed that DV footage still sells though..

You can sell 1440x1080. That's still 1080, it's just squished to save filespace. Most of us stretch-out the 1440 to 1920 to be more "compliant", but 1440 is fine. Any editor will utilize the clip properly.

Some places don't take 1440x1080; they'd rather have 1920x1080. But both are acceptable here.

If you have limited storage, or a slower Internet connection, and don't plan on submitting at places that don't take 1440, then I'd say stick with 1440.

The 2 best ways to encode your HDV footage would be
-1440 with HDV codec (requires Final Cut Pro 5 or later as you need "mov")
-1920 with mjpeg codec

Many people seem to use 1440 with mjpeg codec, but normally it is a codec meant to be used with square pixels, i.e. 1920 x 1080, as it doesn´t store the anamorphic pixel aspect ratio inherent to the HDV format.

I am running FCS2 and my experience with HDV native is not overwhelming. My 1920 mjpeg clips sell better. The problem is that Apple HDV works natively only inside Final Cut Studio and there is no quicktime plugin which would allow for opening and transcoding it to another format, neither for win nor for mac. Mjpeg is universal and can be used by anyone with Win 95 (as long as the processor does not explode..:). However, my sales results are biased of course as I would always encode my better clips with mjpeg, even though it takes me 4-5 hours to upload them. If you wanted to have a true comparison, you would need to select randomly between the 2 formats by flipping a coin and then see how they´re doing.

Cheers and good luck,
Stefan

Thanks Stefan and Odesigns, that clears up alot of my questions, i'm going to experiment with 1920 a bit and see what happens, although a few times when I use 1920 the video stutter( I dont have MJPEGS on my version of FCS, so that might be the problem)

Thanks for the time out to help me

Martin