What settings do you guys usually use when Exporting to Windows Media in Adobe Preiemre Pro? Is there anyway I can keep the quality of hte video looking good, because I've been having lots of trouble with that. Thanks!

Goodwill

when you say "windows media" what do you mean? AVI, WMV, ASF?

What is your target medium? the web?

No, my target is sending over MSN for now, and yes, I meant WMV.

okay so you are emailing it? How long is your vid and what is the maximum attachment size?

Almost 6 minutes, but my attatchement size is unlimited. Just it takes a while if it gets over 60 megs

well you will have to test it with the file, because clarity is subjective. Are you going to export at NTSC dimensions or half sized? Do this: Stretch the work area to cover ten seconds, try to place it over an area that has a significant edit (for example a cut between an indoor and an outdoor scene) export, adobe media encoder, choose windows media from the drop down. set it to export the work area only, then try out a few of the windows media 9 streaming settings to start. Make sure that video is set to two pass and variable bit rate. When exported, multiply the size of your file 36 and you will have a rough estimate of file size. Watch the edit we talked about and make sure you arent getting significant artifacting at edit points (The two pass VBR should avoid that). There is no definitive answer to something like this, you have to do tests and see what works...thats why you are doing a ten second clip, it wont take long to render. Try it out and write back if you have more Q's.