Need help with compressor settings

I hoped someone could help me with this. I have HD footage that has been captured in FCP as SD, so it's 4:3, with letter box so that the original 16:9 footage wasn't stretched.
I need to make small Quicktime movies for streaming on the internet. I want to keep the proportions that I have, but I want to crop out the black letter box for a 320x180 video. How do I do this?
I could also use help in determining which codecs to use. I want the best possible picture quality at a file size of less than 2MB per 1 min. of footage at the above dimensions.
Please help if you can. Thanks!

I'm also experimenting with the exact same thing. Only difference to yours - I am maintaining the 4:3. Here's what is giving me best results so far - the quality is very good, however I am still working on reducing the file size -> right now I'm at 4 MB/minute. I am trying get better file size only by slowly reducing the Kbps in the Video Settings until my results get unacceptable. All the rest remains as here - (my COMMENTS IN UPPER CASE):
File Extension: mov
Estimated file size: 970 KB
(I'M USING A 15 SEC TEST CLIP)
*Audio Encoder
IMA 4:1, Stereo (L R), 22.050 kHz
*Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 320
Height: 240
Pixel aspect ratio: square
Crop: (L: 50, T: 50, R: 50, B: 50)
(I'M CROPPING AWAY THE ACTION SAFE ZONE, KEEPING 4:3. YOU CAN ADJUST THESE SETTINGS TO YOUR LIKING IN THE GEOMETRY TAB.)
Frame rate: 12
(MY SOURCE IS DV PAL - THUS 12 FPS. IF YOU ARE USING NTSC YOU SHOULD GO FOR 15 OR EVEN 10 FPS. THIS WILL GIVE YOU HALF OF EVEN 1/3 FILE SIZE RESPECTIVELY)
*Frame Controls:
Retiming: Nearest Frame
Resize Filter: Linear Filter
Deinterlace Filter: Motion Adaptive
Adaptive Details: Off
Antialias: 0
Detail Level: 0
Field Output: Progressive
*Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
*Average data rate: 0.512 (Mbps)
I hope this helps you. Please let me know if you find out anything helpful to keep that quality, but reduce the file size! Good luck. Keep in touch!
Jacques
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