Compress a quciktime movie help..

How do I compress a quicktime movie for e-mail? Some of my movies are to big and take long to send.

It's very difficult to get movies down to a size where they can be sent through an email connection and still have acceptable quality. Most Internet service providers limit email attachments to a few megabytes, far too small for movies that are more than a few seconds long. A better option would probably be either to burn the movies to CD and mail them, or post them on a web site somewhere where they can be downloaded.
Hope this helps.

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