DSLR Video - *WANTED* Compression, Hosting, Editing Info

[Jimmy_Lemon]

I have spent the afternoon playing with some footage from Marcel's 7D. Part of my job, outside these lovely forums, is video editing, but not HD and not such massive files as DSLRs can produce....so it took me a while to find some software that would work and then plenty of tests to find a reasonable compression rate and then somewhere good to host it.

So all the above led me to think there must be people in a similar position, so why not make a thread where people can post what they have made and how the did it.

Please note I don't really want this to be just a 'Look at this video I did!' I want some technical info:
What you shot on,
What you edited the footage with (including how easy you found it, limitations etc)
What you used to compress/export the footage settings wise and what file size it produces
Where you have hosted it and how well that seems to have dealt with the footage.

I will start below and really would be interested in seeing and reading what you have done

 

[Jimmy_Lemon]

The Video:
http://vimeo.com/10698428

Shot On:
Canon 7D - Some footage in full HD, some in what I think was 720p and 50fps.

Edited With:
Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 (trial) - which I found reasonably easy to use. I am use to Final Cut Pro which seems far more intuitive that Vegas but possibly just because I am use to it. It took a bit of trial and error to work out how to make some of the 50 fps slow motion, and I also struggled (and in fact still haven't managed) to work how to separate the audio from the video so I could use a clean section of water sound instead of edited sections with voices in the background. Once use to it though it was nice and simple and the way it adds a cross dissolve when you overlap footage is nice as is the simple way of fading the opacity.

Compression:
I decided to give the presets on Vegas a go for the export and compression. First of all trying a full HD Avi export which wouldn't play smoothly at all, still not sure why, and then trying more reasonable 720 HD exports and compressions. The version linked to above was made using the following settings:

which produced a 52mb file, which seems to be reasonable enough but there is marked pixelisation especially on the last scene....and I am sure I can do better.

Hosting:
I thought I might as well sign up to Vimeo for this test and I have meant to for a while and have always thought it looked good. The upload was painless enough, taking about 15mins to upload my 52mb file (about 43kb/sec). Then slightly disappointingly it entered a queue which just kept pimping the paid service to skip this queue. After leaving it in this queue for 30 minutes it played straight away.
I have also uploaded it to youtube which is taking a LONG time to process it which it has finally completed (probably took 45 minutes so makes the Vimeo queue look a little less annoying). I have also tried uploading this to Flickr but it has sat at 99% for the past hour and doesn't seem to want to proceed further.