Re: Best compression setting for Windows Media streaming over broadband and dialup?

I would think that the distance between keyframes would have to be less, since there is so much action and quick cutting, but I will try what you suggest. I also found that particular to Flip4Mac, raising the Quality setting also ends up making both the data rate higher and the file size bigger. I'm not worried about size of the file though... it's just keeping that data rate down that I have to stick with. And as for considering cropping, we'd really like to keep our playback in 16x9 aspect. Were you suggesting to crop the sides down to 4x3 or to make it letterboxed in 4x3?

This project was shot 4x3 in the past and I believe the final .WMV's were delivered at 500 and 800 kbps at 320x240. My client even seems to think 300kbps was also delivered. They were the same candids style projects with graphics and the quality looks great. Unfortunately, the settings that were used on those projects are no longer available...

Thanks for the suggestions... I will try them and get back to you with the results...

-Mike