Making a .flv file and retaining quality

I have a completely finished movie in Final Cut. I need to create a .flv version that is really small in file size (less than 10mb) but retain the quality.
What is the best way to do this?
I have a friend who had a quality .mov file of 18 mb that was converted in to a .flv file of 4.6 mb and it still looks amazing.
Any help would be much appreciated
Tim

There is no magic button that will work for all videos. A lot depends on how many pixels are changing between frames and this can be drastically affected by long, slow dissolves - particularly if dissolving between motion-intensive scenes. And, of course, quality is a subjective term that must be ironed out with several review steps with you/your client.
That said, I've been very happy with results I've gotten from Sorenson Squeeze (and similar products) from Sorenson Media over the years.
http://sorensonmedia.com/
Its interface offers quite a lot for tweaking the quality/size of the output files.

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