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Windows movie maker is quite good at resizing.

Clips should be around 1.5mb-2mb per minute.

Test movie quality before uploading, if it needs abit more then resize from the original again to find the numbers that match for you.

That size will give you such bad quality that the punter will not buy any more of your films. My films are about 3 minutes long, and I use a file size of about 14BM for this. That's almost 5 MB per minute. This will give you a Bit Rate of 1.1 mega bits per second (nice and clear) and a frame size of 720x576, even with an aspect ratio of 16:9 (wide screen) and you can sell these of as little as £1

5mb sounds fine also, definitely fine for downloadable clips, not too sure on streaming clips. Test the stream yourself and flick between points of it to see how fast the download is. If it buffers etc then this has potential to put members off taking another clip as the experience is not streamlined.

Also remember when testing yourself remember all the clients may not have a fast broadband like you (so if its abit sticky on your end anyone with a slower net will experience it worse) and they also purchase them from mobile devices, 5mb for the mobile device market is overkill.

To cover all bases you could have different quality, Mobile, playback on computer and high quality, also streaming and downloadable. Only takes a few secs to change a setting in movie maker to do these.