Exporting animations as movie files
Movie Style
Framerate
A movie file is a series of individual frames which, when played in sequence, produce an animation. The higher the frame rate the smoother the animation will appear, but the file will also be much larger, require a lot more time to produce, and potentially require high-end hardware to playback (double the framerate > double the file size > double the rendering time > double the playback resource usage).
A framerate of 30FPS is usually fine for most uses, but 60FPS may be preferable for 360 degree videos (see below).
A lower framerate will render much faster and may be used to check the animation export before rendering the movie again with higher framerate and resolution settings for production.
Resolution
Quality
The quality setting is most important for large volumes, ut generally has a big impact on the processing time. The quality setting goes from Very Low to Very High and each increase in quality level results in both an increase in the quality of the video render and the processing time needed to produce the video file.