Render for web - What are the best settings?

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Render for web - What are the best settings?

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I'm probably going to need to start providing some of my customers dowloadable video from their websites. They will provide the video probably in DVD, so what's the best way of getting it to the web?

Is it best to stream, download for viewing, or what?

What's the best quality vs. smallest file size?

What's the best file format?

I've so many questions.

Ideally, I'd like something like the BBC offers, you click the watch video link, a new smaller window opens up, with a player inside - There's a full screen option on the player, and the video quality / sound isn't bad - Best thing is the video is fairly instant, and you don't have to much in the way of buffering pauses.

Help / suggestings anyone?
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What I do is run it through Windows Movie Maker>Other Settings>Highest Quality Video (Highest). Compressed and still looks great! Comes out as a WMV file.

Full Quality
3.88gb 640x480
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Compressed
25.6mb 640x480
Image

Of course I upload it to YouTube which in turn makes it a Flash file, so buffering time is dropped much more.
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Flash eh! That's got me interested.

I've seen a few packages such as Camtasia Studio that convert to Flash - so this is something I could obviously do myself. Good top on the buuffering time.

I have a particular enquiry I'm following at the moment, and the customer is in Mexico. Loads of people in Mexico have broadband, but the average speed there is between 1 and 2MB - Good compared with dial-up, but certainly nothing on my 28MB connection here in England. I think this idea of better buffering is certainly worth looking into.
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that looks pretty hot for the compression


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OT: How do you color correct barnes?
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Someone asked before, this was the setting I used for that video. (Bottom of page)
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It probably depends on your editing software...
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