Compressing movies for web use

I have just finished a movie which is now about 6 gb. I do not have a .mac or iweb account. I am looking to upload this on youtube or myspace. However, it needs to be down to about 100 mb.
How can I convert this to a wv format or anything of lower quality??
thanks.

III. hand for iSquint...
have a look in its options:
1) select "for TV"… that generates an mpeg4 ("iPod" generates h264)
2) push Quality slider to the far right, max... click expert options (my user interface is German, correct?)
3) youtube.com requires 320x240
4) bitrate & fps: you reduce the final file size with that; and you set the quality.. NTSC has 30fps, but 15fps cuts the size in half... but movements aren't as smooth...
for publishing that files on your own site, 500-700 kB/s result excellent quality, 200kB/s still acceptable 8depends on content & your personal threshhold)...
my experience with youtube.com: it adds ALLWAYS compression artifacts... no sense to go beyond 300-400 kB/sec
5) you should choose deinterlace
and you can spare some MB by reducing audio quality, I do use 60kB/sec, 22050HZ, mono...
to give you an impression of resulting quality, watch both demo movies on my HowDidYouDoTHAT website (some tricks with iMovie...), in the section Filmstrip ... my demos are .mac hosted, the YouTube demo was uploaded and is on my website embedded...
30minutes... long movie.. for webuse...

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