Flash 7 compatible video quality

I have some video clips to encode which unfortunately must be
Flash 7 compatible. The quality of this video is remarkably lower
than Flash 8 compatible. In particular, after each edit point the
video appears extremely pixelated, then takes 1-2 seconds for the
quality to improve.
The Flash 8 videos looked great, the Flash 7 videos are
almost under the threshold of being too low quality. Even when I
bump up the quality level, the problem still persists (even to the
point where the files are too big to put online anyway).
It seems that the Sorenson encoder is of much lower quality
than the new On2 VP6
Any suggestions?

Sorenson is definately much lower quality then on2, have you
tried using Rob's bandwidth calculator to achieve the best quality
possible?
You can find it here:
http://www.flashsupport.com/books/fvst/files/tools/flv_bitrate.html

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:33:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
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