video file conversion advice

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Hi all,

i have a 58sec long video clip which is 7mb, far too big to effectively email to the people its targeted towards.
Its basically a 3d rendered flythrough of a tendered office build.
Currently it is an .avi file:
320 x 420
15fps
58 secs long

I've been using Zwei-Stein v3.01 to try and find the best method to:
a) reduce the file size
b) export it in a format that all but universally cross-platform acceptable.

Currently i've converted it to 240x180, 15fps with a 10% compression to get it to 4.4mb and saved back as a .avi.

Converting to a WMV type file made it look horrible and bloated the filesize. The only other option this software gave was RealMedia format which i think is the most rare of the 3 to be fair and less likely to play on other people's systems.

We think the main targeted recipient has an iphone which he'll receive/play it on.
But as i've already found out, you can't legislate for what software/codecs folks have on their respective systems. I emailed it the boss and his WMP doesn't have the correct codecs to play it, mine does! And we're on the same domain/network.
This could easily be the same for any potential recipient.

Does anyone have any advice please?
Is it possible to maybe embedd it inside a powerpoint presentation that also embeds a viewer with it? Or is that likely to increase file size substantially?

Thanks for any input offered.
 
Lol, thanks for the input guys, err.....youtube, lol, yeah, not very professional is it though?
In fact, my apologies fellas, i don't think i made it clear that its for a big client who loves his gadgets that why we're trying to alter it so he can receive it on his iphone....he'll love it. Its to show him a new design layout for his new office building.
He's as bigwig at a place where you should have gone if you bought dodgy spectacles elsewhere ;)
 
the iphone uses mpeg4/h-264, so encode it as that....
you should be able to stream it from a webpage easily then using quicktime plugin, remember iphone resolution is quite low (320 times something)
 
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