You might want to download the new Windows Media 9 encoder. I've been experimenting with it and am getting incredible results with 250kbs Video VBR and CD Quality Stereo Audio VBR. It ends up being 314kbs total. All you need to do is download the encoder, click on "New Session" and set the properties.

I've also learned from Douglas Spotted Eagle's posts to "crop in." In other words, with track motion, crop in your final AVI so that you lose the outer 10 to 20% of the border you wouldn't see on TV anyways. Then render it again. Then run WM9 encoder on that AVI. Why show everything in a lossy format that someone wouldn't see on their TV anyway.

I have cute FTP and downloaded encoder. How do I get this 1.59 GB file to show on my website? I know Chienworks does it on his site? How Any help here?

You want to publish a 1.59 Gigabyte file to your webserver?? You must be talking about the avi that you need to encode.

Anyways, once you have the file encoded (should end up about 4 to 6 MEGAbytes, open up CuteFTP, press F4 for Site Manager. Then File | New Site. Enter the address where you're publishing (ie. www.mydomain.com), your username and password, then press the Connect button in the lower right. It should connect, showing you your local computer files on the left and the site files on the right. You may have to read up on your domain and where you need to publish your files. Some sites have a WWW directory that you publish to, some a Public HTML, etc.

Once you have the right and left matched up, you can double-click any file on the left side (your computer) and it will transfer to the host.

But whatever you do, don't try to publish your avi, unless you want to wait until Tuesday! :)

If you want more extensive help email me at . I have a site where I show about 6 videos and have gone through the learning curve of setting it up (all in Windows Media format).

Short answer is no.

You use the winmedia 9 encoder, the Real Helix encoder, DiVX, or Quicktime pro as a few of the standalone apps that squeeze your video into a more reasonable size - the encoding can be done inside Vegas from the timeline if you'd prefer, and *can* (not always) give better results then rendering your project to avi & then re-encoding. The easiest to use app might be moviemaker2 if you run windows XP.

The next thing to consider is if your video will be download only or if you want to allow people to view it as it's downloading, like the video clips at CNN or FOX. If you want it to stream, you might want to look around at sites specifically for hosting video. If you want to go corporate level, there is at least one company that will host your entire file, then encode it on demand to whichever format the viewer desires.

If it's a company web site, you might want to consider having the video available in at least realmedia and winmedia, probably adding Quicktime as well.

mike