Just to warn you this starts off with a rant!

To my notion Quicktime has the best file compression and from the
results I'm getting a flash FLV file is twice the size of the
Quicktime file of similar quality. My digit hero's at Apple are
screwing this up royally though since it's been my experience on
Windows that Apple software is just plain flakey and windows users
have good reason not to install it. I really don't think it's that
Apple doesn't know how to make it work, more like sell more macs or
something, suspect that's backfiring though as bad software doesn't
make friends. Quicktime 7.6 wouldn't work on my old laptop, some
flakey green screen, I had to install an older version to get it
working there. On VMware I still don't have it working even though I
tried an older version and it's crashing IE. This just stinks because
on the mac quicktime is one of the sweetest smoothest tools you could
ask for. If I wasn't doing web design I'd just be happy I have mac and
wouldn't give a flying duck!

So according to google and other sources flash is the way of the
future, I think Miles said that too. Maybe I'm just not getting the
settings right but my last effort gave me horrible quality in flash.
Of course I was lazy and used DW CS3 since I didn't have a skin handy,
and I don't think the frame rate was right. So to heck with that and
it won't validate anyways.
<end rant>

So, I'm making my own skin in flash and I'm going to use swfObject to
insert it. However I need some advise on frame rates for the skin and
even the flv file. Seems like I read somewhere the skin needs to have
a higher frame rate then the flv to work right.

So I'm dealing with an 8 minute movie which the original source was a
dvd, and then it was edited in iMovie 6. The DV file is about 2 gig.
Quicktime duplicated it in a .mov file in 13 Mb with great quality. My
Flv was about 29 Mb and I kept getting these flashes in the video when
it played in the skin. I think it was ok otherwise. I know it's a
broadband world mostly, but these are still a lot big. Any suggestions
as to what I should have for settings on the flv and the skin swf to
get decent quality? Also in flash making a skin is the frame-rate I'm
worried about controlled by the original file settings, or settings in
the skin?

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