New to Flash - can I compress a video further?

Question

I have Quicktime movies usually about seven minutes long I would like to put on my site. I have converted them to flv with the flash media player, but when I try to upload them to my site with dreamweaver the server usually times out. They are working out around 40MB, and my server administrator has told me they are too big, and I should just put them on youtube. But the whole reason I got Flash was to be able to put them on MY site. Is there anyway I can compress the files further?
Thanks from a newbie

Answer 1

I know that there is a "using language of...(whatever app, etc)" command to get things done with AppleScript. You might look into that as a method of controling a non-Mac app.
Here is an OK example from a portion of a script that I quickly found in the sample scripts that come with OS X:
try
using terms from application "http://www.apple.com/placebo"
tell application SOAP_app of machine SOAPEndpointURL
set this_result to call soap ¬
{method name:method_name ¬
, method namespace uri:methodnamespaceURI ¬
, parameters:method_parameters ¬
, SOAPAction:SOAP_action}
end tell
end using terms from
return {true, this_result}
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is -916 then ¬
set the error_message to "The script was unable to establish a connection to the Internet."
return {false, error_message}
end try
I have seen the same kind of thing used in many apps! It may be more complicated than cut-n-pasted commands from UI Browser, but I hope this leads you in the right direction.