Help with Audio Settings

I'm a neophyte when it comes to audio recording. My projects
are software demos with a few PowerPoint slides for introduction
and wrap-up. After I record the PowerPoint show and the on-screen
demo action, I use a headset/microphone to record narration for
each C3 slide in the project.
Is there a good description/discussion somewhere of the
various settings in the Captivate "Audio settings" dialog box?
In particular, what do "Encoding Bitrate", "Encoding
Frequency", and "Encoding Speed" mean? And what effect does
changing each of them have on the sound quality and file size (both
when I'm recording the audio and when I publish the movie)? What
settings would be best for "voice-over" narration? (I do not use
background music.)
The C3 online help for this dialog box isn't much help at
all. For example, here's all that it says about "Encoding
Frequency" and "Encoding Speed":
= = = = = = = = = =
Encoding Frequency
Select the frequency at which audio encoding must be
performed.
Encoding Speed
Drag the slider bar to set the required audio encoding speed.
Increasing the encoding speed reduces the quality of the encoded
files.
= = = = = = = = = =
That's a bit like saying "In your car, the brake pedal is
used to apply the brakes" without saying that you apply the brakes
to stop the car.
I'd appreciate any and all insight you can share on this
subject, and/or references to things I should read to learn about
these.
Thanks,
Bill

i hate to rain on everyone's parade here but this problem lies elsewhere and not with the photo-jpeg video.
i was given several drives chock full of offline rt video and it plays fine out to my monitor. video was captured at offline rt preset resolution (320x240 photojpeg, square par), sequences are offline rt, control is apple dvcpro firewire to a jvc br-dv600ua vtr.
granted, the video looks less than desireable but it's useful none-the-less. i forgot to mention that this in a fcp 4.5 project on my panther boot drive.
perhaps the original poster will give some more info to help nail down the problem. or maybe my quicksilver system doesn't know it isn't supposed to display offline rt video.
zeb

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