old_expat - 6:44 am on Jan 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

As long as it is short... My personal preference would be to use Flash video (FLV) at 320x240 pixels (assuming 4:3 aspect ratio). You can generally get pretty good results at 15 fps using the high quality setting. With good editing and voiceover you can pack a lot of information into a one minute video clip. The resulting file size would be a fairly bandwidth-friendly 4 Mb or so.

Hello Samizdata,

Thanks for the comments. Pretty much what I was hoping to hear, especially the length. I was actually thinking in terms of some very serious editing and 30 seconds unless it was a really interesting street scene or something like that.

I will have to learn how to do quite a few things, especially Flash video .. and that scares me a bit.

Thanks again. :)