I once got an email from an aquaintance that went something like this.

"Hey Kath, How can I upload my videos to Youtube and make them so that they don't look so shitty?"

Believe it or not, ladies and gents, there is over 4 hours of valuable lessons on how to make beautiful web videos.  Nothing is worse than waiting for a vid to load, right?  Well, these days it would help to know the best way to crunch your material down to a small size, so that you can upload it to the web and have it look fantastic, but also play instantly.

Major kudos must go to Aharon Rabinowitz, at Creative Cow.  I purchased his DVD-Rom called "Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web" for $50.00, and it was well worth it.  I have learned so much about compression techniques and software, in Part 1 alone!  If you can squeeze your videos small enough to work on Vimeo or YouTube and still maintain decent picture quality, you'll impress audiences.  And after working so hard on making your movies, isn't it worth it to know how to put them online without jitters or that icky grain?