For my new site, I am planning to give members the ability to download HD quality video in both WMV and MOV formats. I encoded all my videos based on the standard settings of my video encoding software for WMV - HD and MOV - HD. I am now working out that based on these settings, the MOV file is 1.3 GB and will take a user more than an hour (and possibly a lot longer) to download! :-0

Does anyone who offers this to their users have advice on what settings (resolution, frame rate, bit rate) I can use to encode the videos so that they look high quality / HD but don't take an inordinate amount of time to download?

I should also mention that although all new videos are now being shot in HD, the majority of my old content that I am encoding was not.

Thanks so much for your thoughts!

Laurence