Help with saving movie with best quality and smallets size. PLEASE

I need to know how to save my movies with the best quality and the smallest file size. I'll be posting primarily to the web, so I need to keep my file sizes to a minimum, yet I want to retain as best quality as I can. ANY assistance is greatly appreciated!

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> I need to know how to save my movies with the best quality and the smallest file size. I'll be posting primarily to the web, so I need to keep my file sizes to a minimum, yet I want to retain as best quality as I can. ANY assistance is greatly appreciated!
Flash video is becoming popular because you can have a player embedded
in your web page that will stream video that will play on nearly any
browser without additional plug-ins. You can get decent quality at a
decent size.

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