Movie saved as AVI

I must save a short movie for a client so it will play on a PC without QuickTime and it will not be load on the corporations computers. It must also be under 50mg, it's only going to be a 30second movie. It will be e-mailed to employees. I can save it as a avi file but to get the best quality it is to big. Is there any way to change the dimensions so the image and the file size is smaller. Also what is the best compression to use.
Thanks

Hi Dave,
as an Apple user, you should make some "propaganda" for Quicktime-for-windows.... ;-)), hey, PC-users, and it's free!!!
to get serious:
compressing video files is an art form, see what our iMovie expert Dan is writing on his excellent website about exporting: Dan's unofficial iM website (look at the point export)
you can play around with the settings: make it smaller, less frame rates (15 is in most cases enough), make it mono.....

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I bought Quicktime pro 7 for windows to convert mov files to avi files so I can import them into Sony Vegas. But after converting the mov files...vegas still won't recognize the AVI file that was converted by Quicktime Pro. So after doing research on other forums it seems that there are 2 types of AVI files (divx and xvid). My question is does QT pro only convert the MOV files to one type of AVI and if so...then how do I go about getting a refund.
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I bought Quicktime pro 7 for windows to convert mov files to avi files so I can import them into Sony Vegas. But after converting the mov files...vegas still won't recognize the AVI file that was converted by Quicktime Pro.
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welcome Hiyemyes to the  boards of discussions ...
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couldn't your PC friend do that on his machine...?
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No problem.
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Welcome JoeArc10 to the  iMovie boards ...
.. The second and longer (19:33mins) project is giving me all kinds of problems.
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