Exporting to quicktime for web

Can you tell me the best quality setting when exporting a clip from final cut for use on a website.
The clip has been green screened with the filter and it looks clear in the viewer, but when watching it in quicktime and on the web, its fuzzy?
Any ideas
Thank you

No there isn't.
You will need to purchase a separate Flash encoder.
There are several with the most notable, of course, being from Adobe.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Macflashencoders&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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Re: h.264 gamma and/or color off
Posted: Mar 14, 2008 4:11 PM in response to: Dave Mauriello
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