Help w/compressing movie

i put to together a movie from a dvd and audio from a cd, its about 2 hours long and the file size is a whopping 20 GB. i'm going to compress it to quicktime, but im wondering if that will screw with the audio, and also how big the file may be. thank you, if you need any more info i'll be glad to give it.

iMovie works within the DV specification. This simply means that 2 hours of DV material should equal 26GB. The video should be in a DV stream and the audio sampled at 16-bit/48KHz. You have several export options out of iMovie. If you choose DV stream, then nothing is changed and you have a 26GB file. Choosing other compression options will affect both audio & video. How it is affected depends on how it is compressed (which option you choose)!
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> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply. I am using Flash 8. I've been
looking into streaming
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I've found a company
> that will stream flash movies much more cheaply which is
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>
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>

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