Digital Web Magazine has been running a short series of articles entitled “The Rise of Flash Video”. Part 3 of the series covers in detail what you need to know about encoding flash video for the web.

“Some folks take issue with Flash video, and they do have a point. There is a lot out there that makes watching Flash video a painful experience. They talk about pixelated and jerky video, and point to poorly re-compressed YouTube content as evidence that Flash video sucks. These shrill claims are misguided, but many people hear them and blindly agree that Flash video stinks.

Get clear on this: It isn’t the technology. It is the person that encoded the video in the first place who made the mistake”

Read on for assistance in avoiding those mistakes. You can also read the two previous parts to this article here and here.