Taking XDCAM 1440x1080 green screen to Motion to Flash???

I have an on camera segment shot green screen with an XDCAM camera. I edited the video in FCP and sent it to Motion as a 1440x1080 project. I did all of the green screen magic and now I want to export it so I can create a Flash video that is going to be keyed over the website using an alpha channel.The website dimensions are 1024x768. When I create a Flash for the web designers, it runs very clunky. I want to check to make sure I am doing things right. So here is my process.
In Motion, click export.
Export: Quicktime Movie
Use: Lossless + Alpha
Include: Video & Audio
Options:
Quicktime
Codec: Animation
Quality:100
Output:
Resolution: Full
Color: Color + Alpha
Render Quality: Best
Frame Blending checked.
Once that is outputted, I use Adobe Media Encoder CS3 to encode it into a Flash. Settings:
Video codec: On2 VP6
Encode Alpha Channel checked
Deinterlace checked
Quality: High
Max Bit Rate: I have tried 1000 up to 6000
Audio: 192
No cropping or resizing.
When I open the .flv in Flash CS3 and preview it. It plays slowly and choppy.
Any suggestions? I really appreciate the time!
Thanks,
John Schenkel

Don't export out of FCP at all then. Just open the color corrected-rendered-exported-as-native clips in Motion. Apply your keying and matting. You will export the processed clips out of Motion using ProRes4444, RGB+alpha.
There is no tangible gain trying to process individual, trimmed shots. If you apply the color correction to each scene, you will have a long clip that can be edited-cut-trimmed just like the raw clip, just be sure to keep the audio unless you're confident in marrying the tracks. That's just my preferred method.
If you have already trimmed your scenes (the clips that go from start to stop) into individual shots, you can assemble them into a sequence, maybe add some black between them, nest the sequence, and apply one color correction to the whole sequence. This, of course, is useless if you're already locked into or tied to timecoded edits.
All of this advice is based on my theory that complicating anything in FCP unnecessarily is not just asking for trouble, it practically assures disaster.
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