Best method to compress a quicktime mocie for the web

I have a 30 second quicktime movie that is 112.5 MB in size. I want to compress it to be placed on the web. The audio needs to be great as I am a composer and that is of primary concern. I think that I would like to get it down to somewhere around 3 to 4 MB in size. What is the best tool to use? Is Compressor the easiest software to do this specific task? Thanks.

hey dmbpictures, welcome to the forums!
to answer your questions:
1) When I originally compress from FCP to a Quicktime
Movie, does it need to be self-contained? (I didn't
check that box)
i tend to stay away from reference files only bcz in my experience, i have a lot of trouble when encoded using either compressor or QT Pro export.
2) When you export the movie once in Quicktime, what
Compression Type do you use? (I chose Sorenson Video
3, wasn't sure if that was the right one).
this is a difficult question, you can use either sorenson 3, or mpeg4 (i personally use mpeg-4 more for web) since they are both very good codecs. i guess with some testing, you can find the right one. technically speaking, QT supports both codecs, so playback would not be an issues unless the downloader does not have QT.
3) Is it better to do it this way than using
Compressor? Just curious.
once again, its my personal preference to use QT export bcz it gives you a lot of control, not as much as compressor, but enough, and i feel its more stable and it encodes faster with less resources (checking teh activity monitor) vs. compressor. if i could, i would use cleaner but its not supported by OS X (10.4x)
hope that helps
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