What is a reasonable file size for a 4 minute video on the web?

Question

I am working on a site that will have a video on it. I am using HTML5 with a flash fallback and am hosting the video on the site (the client does not want to use Vimeo, YouTube, etc.). The video is a little over 4 minutes long and I have compressed the video down to 12.7MB for the mp4 format and around 23MB for webm and ogv. Are these file sizes too large? I can maybe get them smaller, but the quality really suffers. I also have the entire Adobe Creative Suite, so if someone has a good way to compress a video really well, while maintaing quality and a high resolution, I'm all ears!

Thanks!

Answer 1

That's pretty acceptable. Keep in mind that this four minute video will load fully in a little over 10 seconds on most consumer-level broadband connections.