I'm on a Windows machine and have no experience with FCP, so I can't help you on any specifics there, but I've managed to get shiny xvid avis for DL versions. I export uncompressed AVI out of Vegas and make web-ready encodes with StaxRip, but it shouldn't matter what program you use, really. As long as it allows you to specify your desired bitrate, it should be fine. From my experience, for a 720p version you shouldn't go any lower than 4000 kbps.
I feel like xvid/divx is still pretty standard for DL versions in the vidding community since older machines can have issues with H.264 playback, but the latter is definitely the more modern thing to use.
For streaming versions I'll just suggest looking for the recommended specifications for uploads on whatever streaming site you want to use - YouTube's are here, for example, and here on Vimeo. They're all pretty similar. :)
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Date: 2013-01-25 01:22 am (UTC)I feel like xvid/divx is still pretty standard for DL versions in the vidding community since older machines can have issues with H.264 playback, but the latter is definitely the more modern thing to use.
For streaming versions I'll just suggest looking for the recommended specifications for uploads on whatever streaming site you want to use - YouTube's are here, for example, and here on Vimeo. They're all pretty similar. :)