I have a client who has eight or nine 3-5 minute video clips that they want converted for their website. I have made these for them in the past and they were fine.

This year, they had someone else do it. Now they contact me and ask if I can re-encode their files. They say there is something wrong with the flv's they have been given - I think it is simply that they are way too large in size for the web - however I have not seen the files yet to be sure.

Anyway, They are going to give me FLV files to convert to FLV of smaller file size.

You can't input flv to flv in CS3 Flash Video Encoder
Can't bring flv into Premiere timeline....

and even if I can figure out how to re-encode, will it be a huge loss of quality? I've seen FLV to AVI converters on the web - would that take a drastic loss in quality to go from FLV to AVI and back to FLV?

Trying to get an idea of best way to handle this---

thanks!

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