Software simulations - mov, fla, avi, wmv, ???

If I need to do a software simulation in full motion, because
captivate won't capture certain things, and if I need the capture
to be around 800x600 or 1028x768 in order to capture the entire
software screen, what output format video should I use.....if I
capture with Camtasia, I can output fla, avi, mov, wmv, swf. Which
one is best? Assume that people will access the video from a
broadband connection.
it seems like avi is too huge, but the swf was large too. FLA
looked good., but it seems like variable bit rate quicktime movies
look great and are small.
help
thanks

SWF is probably best. FLA is a Flash source file, so that
won't do your
users any good, of course, if they don't have Flash (and
really isn't
meant to be a 'distributable' format). If you want to do FLA,
you'd want
to then open that file in Flash and output in some published
format...
I see no problem with QT, other than folks may not have QT on
their
machine...
Erik
Mind Meld wrote:
> If I need to do a software simulation in full motion,
because captivate won't
> capture certain things, and if I need the capture to be
around 800x600 or
> 1028x768 in order to capture the entire software screen,
what output format
> video should I use.....if I capture with Camtasia, I can
output fla, avi, mov,
> wmv, swf. Which one is best? Assume that people will
access the video from a
> broadband connection.
>
> it seems like avi is too huge, but the swf was large
too. FLA looked good.,
> but it seems like variable bit rate quicktime movies
look great and are small.
>
> help
> thanks
>
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