Recommend me an export setting!

Hey all, well I've found this board to be very helpful and informative, so i'll post up another question.
I recently finished making another movie in iMovie 4, that is just over 6 minutes in length. I've created two exported versions, with two different settings.
First is the basic CD-ROM export setting, and it came out to be about 37 MB in size, but with bad quality.
I tried using the preset H264 setting, with 15 frames a second, set to best quality, using a 1 level sharpen filter, and 720x480 in size. It came out great, but it was 621 MB in size. Still great quality, and better than the 1.2 gig raw DV size, but still a little too big.
Is there any other setting(s) you would recommend that would give me a good medium? Still good quality but more around 100MB maybe, preferably less? I greatly appreciate your help, thanks

130MB's is still a bit "large" for even modern Web use.
All servers have "bandwidth limits" and you may need to upgrade your service to get the extra bandwidth needed for multiple viewers of your file.
It would take almost a day for me to download over dial-up. I know, most don't care about dial-up users.
MPEG-4 makes good looking video. But an export on a Mac uses QuickTime formats that may not "play nice" with other viewers (Web video players).
It also automatically adjusts to the video gamma difference between Mac's and PC's (a big bonus).
QuickTime 7 has been out for more than a year and millions of users have downloaded it. It comes on every Mac sold and is installed on Windows machines when they download iTunes. A big audience.
A "custom" html page can include special tags that can display your file at a larger dimension than the source. H.264 files play very nice at "double size".
So. You could export at a very low data rate (300 to 800 kbits/sec) using AAC audio at 128 at a dimension of 320X240 and display it in a Web page at "double" size. Cut the frame rate in half (15fps) and not many would complain.
This new .mov or .mp4 file could be 20MB's. Six times smaller than the source which would allow you more visitors (less bandwidth use) and a faster download.
Test a few one minute "cuts" at various settings to get your feet wet. Once you know what settings to use (or work best for your file) you can do the entire export to QuickTime.

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Should I convert them with QuickTime Pro 7 (QTP7) to another format, and if so, what is the best export setting.
That depends on your specific work flow and the codec(s) involved. Generally speaking, if the file plays in the QT Player and is "conversion" compatible, then the file can be added directly to iDVD (i.e., unlike iMovie '08/'09/'11 which requires the file to be "edit" compatible with QT).
I have export them using QuickTime 10 and QTP7 to MOV, MP4, & M4V and the output is bad bad bad.
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The "Export" option re-compresses the data while the "Save As..." option only places the original data in an MOV file container. So if this output is "bad, bad, bad," then I suspect your source file(s) are not of high quality to begin with. (This seems to be confirmed by the very low audio sampling rate which implies the video data rate was probably also low to conserve file storage space.)
The internal information of the AVI movies are: (as reported by QT)... Format: Apple OpenDML JPEG, 640 x 480, Millions, 8-bit Unsigned Integer, Mono, 11.024 kHz
The basic codecs here appear to be both playback and conversion compatitible with QT (other than the very low sampling rate which some QT apps may not like). Thus, if your work flow is to simply burn DVDs that can be played on commercial players, the AVI could most likely be dropped to iDVD for authoring. On the other hand, if you are editing in a recent version of iMovie, then that app may not like the AVI file container. In this case, the best quality you can likely expect would be to use the "Save As..." option to place the data in an MOV file container and import to iMovie.
Unfortunately, editing in iMovie '08/'09/'11 is done "by reference" which means your output file will be created by exporting the impoted source data to another compression format. The default would be H.264/AAC which is a highly compressed format which in turn would be re-compressed again by iDVD to multiplexed MPEG2/PCM content further reducing quality by using a less efficient video codec. My recommendation for export from iMovie in this case would be AIC/Linear PCM. (I.e., to export your edits to the Apple intermediat video codec using the original file size and frame rate with just a bit of "sharpening" and using 16-bit/48 kHz Linear PCM audio (which is what will be used to create the DVD).
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How much are you willing to spend?
Is there a way to just use iDVD with the original AVI movies?
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