Snapz Pro X screen capture Movies into FCEHD

I make educational tutorials for educators. I also created a weekly vodcast/show with a FCE HD intro. I wish to import the SnapzProX 2.0.3 (SP) vids into the FCEHD intro and export for vodcast for web streaming. My vodcast will premeir in the fall of 2007.
I found that SP seems to best export to FCEHD as an animated movie file. However, I am unsure of how to get the best quality mp4 when exporting from FCEHD. What are the best settings to get a 640 X 480 web video. I can go smaller, but in many cases my teachers wish to see a larger video so they can read the text on the screen. Am I stuck with a tiny 320 x 280 window for tutorials on the web?
I tried manually upping the size when exporting to mp4 and the video was extremely blurry.
File size is an issue... my tutorials are short (about 2-5 minutes) annd I wish to keep them under 20MB.
I watch Atomic learning vids (www.atomiclearning.com)that are fairly clear and can stream from the web. I called them and they also use Snapz ProX for screen capture.
Any ideas on how to export from FCEHD to the web and still have a fairly clear video?

The codec with the best quality to size ratio is H264. This is what the trailers on Apple's quicktime site are made with, and is capable of very high quality results with (relatively) small file sizes. However, it requires that people have Quicktime 7 installed in order to view it. To support older versions of Quicktime, I would next recommend the mpeg4 codec at around 300Kb/s. You might have some trouble staying under 20MBs at 640x480, though.
You mentioned blurry video when you uprezed to 640x480. You must remember to always convert from your highest resolution. If you converted a file from 320x240 to 640x480, it will get very distorted and pixelated. Also, if you're coming out of SP at a resolution smaller than 640x480, you will also get bad results. Remember to always record at the highest resolution/quality possible.
There is never any one size fits all here. It all depends on what the source material is (graphics and low movement always compress better than live action and high movement. Screen text tends to compress poorly), and what the needs of your viewers are (size vs bandwidth). So your best bet would be to run a lot of tests with a multitude of configurations on a short sample of your project. Then pick the one that seems most suitable.
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