Movie trailer video quality needed

I've got uncompressed video from AE and Premier. When I
encode to flv and run a presentation from my hard drive or CD, the
quality is great; however, once I post it to the web, the quality
of pixelation irks me. Movie trailers (such as 300 or Transformers)
have excellent quality and are in Flash sites. Does anyone know
what format they are using (.mov, .avi?) and the embedding (or
better yet) call process for displaying these in a Flash website?
I'm guessing that the site is only partially in Flash and then they
are loading the movie in a pure html section. Am I correct?

Well, it seems that Apple's h.264 codec is the only solution
to the video quality that I need to deliver over the web. However,
this poses another problem. Does anyone know how to layer and lock
a .mov file over a .swf?... I suppose it is a html or Dreamweaver
issue, but does anyone know if it even can be done?
Thanks...

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