10 Minute video compressed for web streaming help

Hi, I have to get some 10 minute videos online and I can't seem to get them smaller than 60 MB. Right now they are great quality H.264 files but they are all 111 MB. Does anyone know how to get these files to an acceptable file size for the web?
I have to keep the size of the video at 570x320.
Thanks.

I'd have to agree with Dave on this one. Your movie dimensions are the biggest hang up.
How about an old Web trick that works nice with H.264 files? Half size.
Using export via QuickTime at the settings that made the 11MB file but set the dimensions scaled half of your intended size.
I know. You want a big display in the Web page. Here's how to do it.
In the html code are special tags used by the QuickTime browser plug-in. One (rarely used) is scale="tofit".
In the embed tag add scale="tofit" and in the object tag use param name="scale" value="tofit"
In each (object and embed) tag are dimensions used in the source file. Change these values to your desired size (double them).
Bingo! Big display of a smaller file sized movie. Your viewers will not know what hit them.

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