Flash video - best settings

Question

I want to find out what the best practice is in creating a
flash video from
an edited video clip for use on the web.
I have edited a video clip down to 5 minutes and have
rendered it to an .avi
file. I then imported the .avi into Flash and have encoded
using:
1. Progressive download
2. On2 VP6
3. 15fps frame rate
4. Medium quality
5. Video size 320x213 (213 comes up when I set width to 320
and maintain
aspect ratio)
6. Audio data rate - 16 kbps
This all works and the quality is fine when I insert the
flash video into
Dreamweaver, but the file size it over 16mb and I've seen
that other people
have file sizes that are 1/2 that for 5 minute videos.
What can I do better and still maintain quality?
Does it matter whether I render as .avi, .mpg, or other?
Should my Flash video encoding settings be different?
Thanks
Susan

Answer 1

Thanks Jose. That was very helpful. I wasn't able to get it
down to 8 mb,
but did but was able to cut down the file size to something
more reasonable
without loss of quality.
Good idea also about testing with a short video clip.
Susan
"Jose Guevara" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi Susan,
>
> It looks like your video data rate is around 410Kbps.
You should still be
> able to lower it to around 340Kbps-320Kbps without a
quality loss. You
> will be around 12MB for the file size. Depending of the
kind of video it
> is, if you have a lot of movements or not, you might
still be able to
> lower it. If you want to hit 8MB file size for 5min,
your video data rate
> needs to be around 200Kbps.
>
> I would experiment on a 10-20 sec segment by changing
the video data rate
> first, then the fps, and to regain quality use the frame
size to reduce
> the dimensions of the video.
>
> Another good reading:
>
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_encoding_02.html
>
> JG
>
>
>
> "SusanW" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>>I want to find out what the best practice is in
creating a flash video
>>from an edited video clip for use on the web.
>>
>> I have edited a video clip down to 5 minutes and
have rendered it to an
>> .avi file. I then imported the .avi into Flash and
have encoded using:
>> 1. Progressive download
>> 2. On2 VP6
>> 3. 15fps frame rate
>> 4. Medium quality
>> 5. Video size 320x213 (213 comes up when I set width
to 320 and maintain
>> aspect ratio)
>> 6. Audio data rate - 16 kbps
>>
>> This all works and the quality is fine when I insert
the flash video into
>> Dreamweaver, but the file size it over 16mb and I've
seen that other
>> people have file sizes that are 1/2 that for 5
minute videos.
>>
>> What can I do better and still maintain quality?
>> Does it matter whether I render as .avi, .mpg, or
other?
>> Should my Flash video encoding settings be
different?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Susan
>>
>>
>
>