Smooth QT - Flash transition

Hello folks,
I'm just about to launch a new site to represent my multi-media work (I'm a performing artist/visual artist) and the man who has made my website made Flash movies out of the quicktimes I supplied to him. They look *ok* when the image is very simple, but there are loooong portions that look like absolute crap. I know this posting a Flash question to an AE forum, but I have a feeling some of you may know the best way to get a professional Flash movie from an AE-produced quicktime movie.
If anyone has any info at all, please let me know! :)
Much appreciated.
- Fredo Viola

Like any other encoder, Quicktime is going to be reliant in what else is installed on the system doing the encoding. If your guy has the Flash Video Encoder installed, then he has some decent options in the controls used in encoding. If he was using the higher quality preset for the On2 VP6 encoder I don't why it wouldn't look pretty good.
Squeeze and the others offer you more options but maybe you could re-encode using his setup under your supervision.
Good luck!

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