Can't compress a video small enough

I'm a FC Express user and want to submit videos to a website that requires them to be 2 minutes long, 240x320, and no bigger than 7 megs., and they have to be .wmv files. I tried saving a video as a 240x320 Quicktime time file compressed as much as possible, then using the Flip4Mac Quicktime plug-in, and compressing it as much as possible in that to convert it to a .wmv file but it is still too big at 17 megs. Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Charlie Neuman, San Marcoss, CA

1 pass CBR means it looks at it one time and uses a Constant Bit Rate. I don't think you can do anything else when exporting from FCE directly. If you use something like Episode, made by Telestream, who make Flip4Mac, you can use use 2-pass VBR. It looks at the media to assess how it can compress it better and then in the second pass does the compression. VBR stands for Variable Bit Rate. With 2-pass VBR a little reduction of the bit rate, perhaps only one end (it's variable the bit rate can fluctuate between say 300 and 500 depending on the complexity of the video), and you'll get your 7MB.

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