Keynote smaller flash-files ?

I was delighted to discover that it's easy to make little slideshows in Keynote and having the option to export them to flash format.
I would like to incorporate them in my website, which shows different projects during the year. It would make managing the website much easier then in html. However . . . . . a 500 kB keynote file (7 slides 700x350 pixels) makes a 3mB flashfile after export. And that doesn't make me feel happy.
Does someone know a solution. (I tested MacFlashOptimizer, but compressing the flashfile to even 1 mB makes a lousy result).
Important detail: I don't have the official Flash software, which . . . I guess . . . would make it a lot easier.
PowerMac G5 (2x1.8) double harddisk Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Unfortunately, Keynote's Flash export is more of a concession to that format's ubiquity than it is a full-featured high quality Flash file creator. There are many ways other tools have to lower file size by converting vectors, compressing images, etc. Keynote doesn't have any of those. In order to have a smaller Keynote file, you have to make sure that you're pre-compressing all your images to be the exact size you want them to be. Even then, other tools do a MUCH better job than Keynote.

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<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
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I am producing some Web Presenter videos, and they are going to be embedded onto a website.
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.Import video and then Key it in Adobe Ultra
.Import keyed footage into After Effects to allow me to set pixel dimensions for composition
.Render as flash file
Currently, I am rendering them as .Flv (web small) in the settings, but the files are coming out at 8-12mb, and the video is only 60 seconds long. I have seen some guys get flash videos of this length down to 3mb.
My question, am I rendering under the most sensible settings, or is there something better I should be doing? I need to keep the files small, but without losing much quality.
Here is an example of a recent Web Presenter I did: http://www.ukpostbox.com
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When you export to flv with the preconfiguration "web small" you shall dig in it and adjust the data rate (lower it until you get the quality you want).
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One of the most important step in downsizing the size of your video while keeping quality is to do "dual pass" encoding, and AE can't do that.
The great thing is that you can import an AE composition right inside AME, so you don't need to do a temp encoding.

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Hello all,
I am using two programs on my MAC, Keynote and Flash (both
programs are fairly new to me) for a conference presentation that
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in flash and import it into Keynote however, the .mov exported from
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