Newbie Question: F4V file size is huge compared to .mov

Hi, I have a 28 MB .mov that I want to embed into a web page using Flash / Media Encoder. In Media Encoder settings it says the estimated file size will be 2486MB. Am I missing something? It is a long video of a ppt presentation (about 1 hour). I'm not concerned about quality, just file size.
Thanks!!!

The simplest and most overlooked is to change the background
image quality from "High" to "Standard" - this effectively does
just what you mentioned, decreasing color depth. This can be done
by selecting the slide(s) and using the "Slide > Video Quality"
menu for the change. The highest quality isn't always the default,
but check it on your slides to see. If the project is a converted
Power Point, for instance, the "High" quality setting is the
default...
If you notice "bleeding" of background colors, you may have
to increase the color depth (slide "video quality") on the affected
slide, to cure the problem.
Regarding your reference to "best practice", I recommend a
DevCenter article written by Dave Mozealous who was at that time a
staffer for the Macromedia Captivate team.
The
link is right here
Hope this helps get you sorted!
Some final personal thoughts:
First, since you appear to be a Flashie, keep in mind that
images in Captivate are stored, edited, and displayed as bitmaps,
which are much larger files then the vector-graphics you have
worked with in Flash.
Second,
any image of 1024 X 744 is going to be real -
real - big; and you are setting that as the size for every
background in your Captivate project. Sometimes that cannot be
avoided, but often people create large Captivate projects simply
because they haven't used the product long enough to realize what
problems that can cause. So if you can work with a smaller pixel
size for your projects, by all means, do so.

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