Flash conversions

Hi,
I am spending many hours trying to get the most out of my web videos. Here are some examples of what I am trying to achieve;
http://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/Cine%20Showreel/cine_showreel.html
I have FCP and Compressor. I want the format to be the most assessable, best quality and not take an age to load (I don't want much I know that flash supports H.264, which I can encode using compressor, however, I still cannot seem to get the quality.
Reading through the blog on the above website, it seems that he has achieved these beautiful videos by using Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder, although with CS4 coming in at £565 - I'm trying to avoid the cost. Do I even need CS4 (or alternatives like Telestream Episode) if H.264 is supported by flash (I have noticed though that when I ask my friends to view my website - unfortunately using iWeb presently - then it asks them to download the latest version of QT before it will play it, which is no good for prospective clients and they will have clicked off my site by then!!)

Have worked it out

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Have you looked at those spots in the original project timeline to verify that there is nothing strange going on at the trouble spots? Is there anything "different" about either your audio or video files in those spots?
eg. are all the audio files in your project 48Khz?
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Thanks Nick,
I have heard about just changing the extension and I think this might be fine on the Mac side especially with Parian installed. I notice when you do it through QT conversion a 2 min clip takes about 10 min to convert while changing extensions from .mov to .flv takes 2 sec. I have to believe QT conversion is more thorough especially when you are going to multiple platforms.
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This is silly. Apple really should be providing a
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I dunno about that. These days my Sorenson Squeeze is a lot faster and a lot more reliable than Compressor.
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would changing it to a Quicktime movie be more universal for people to view without having to download a plug-in?
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