FLV Compression

[WillCrain]

Hey guys (girls),
I am trying to compress some FLVs to be placed on my site. I shot the footage in an interview style, I am keying the background out and adding some colorcorecting and such. I then need to make the end FLVs 125px X 150px to be loaded into the page... They are set about 17-20sec long and have a slight extention on the begining that i plan to script in a loop.

My problem is that I am having an issue with the end file size. I have tried making the FLVs from After Effects, Final Cut Pro and also Sorenson Squeeze 4.5. I just cant get the end file below 450-500K and look good. I have tried adjusting the datarate all the way down to 176Kbps(video) and 64Kbps mono(audio)... anything below that seems to make the image "smoke and boil" as someone looking over my shoulder mentioned...

Any ideas about getting the file size down further would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[BluesmanUK]

sorry mate - FLV is rubbish
ive just done a project with lots of video and i couldnt get a decent enough quality at such a small file size

I was using Sorenson Squeeze 4.0
with 96kbps audio and 364 kbps video at 320x240 which was kinda acceptable (3.5mb for a 20 second video)but i had the luxury of my project being distributed on CD rom.

Just as a sidenote for anyone who's interested theres a bug in Sorenson 4.x in which the flv metadata is put in wrongly - i was using the width and height meta info to size my movies in flash and it distorted it. I had to use a tool called FLVMDI (

http://www.buraks.com/flvmdi/)

to correct this.