Problems with VBR why not....

So if I am getting dissolve artifacts from VBR 2 pass should I just use CBR @ 6.2
Would that be better quality anyway?

Hi,
I'm looking at Flip4Mac to convert my .mov files into WMV and compress them for my website. I'm lost with all the technical details and hope you can you give me some advice so I don't waste my money on the wrong product.
Flip4Mac have 3 versions of a converter in the 'WMV Studio' range, the major difference being that the top-end one offers 2-pass encoding, while the middle and low-end versions offer 1-pass.
I have to keep the converted file size under 1MB. The trial version I used on the 1-pass setting came in at about 1MB (from a 100MB original) but the quality was not great.
Does 2-pass encoding makes the file size larger or would it be around the same as 1-pass? And is there a distinct improvement in the quality?
Thanks and regards,
Andrew
[email protected]
PowerMac G5 dual 1.8   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   1.5G of RAM

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