Via Tim Prebble's blog, some nice video podcasts by Christopher Willits from XLR8R TV. The story so far:

1. Part 1 (Ep. 42), the basics.
2. Part 2 (Ep. 46), using Ableton Live.
3. Part 3 (Ep. 52), a MIDI pickup and a GR-20.
4. Part 4 (Ep. 74), recording at SnowGhost.
5. Part 5 (Ep. 82), automation clips.

You can download nice 640-by-360 H.264-encoded QuickTime movies of each episode (approx. 100MB per video), and I thought it'd be nice to watch them on my Nokia 6234 phone. (These seem to be very popular here in New Zealand; at least, after I bought mine the next four people I met with a 3G phone also had a 6234.)

After reading a useful Nokia article on creating mobile videos, I fired up QuickTime 7 Pro and started exporting the movies with different settings. This is what I came up with for the best results (and about 28MB per video):

Video export settings.

Audio export settings.

The nice thing about doing this myself is that I could keep the audio bandwidth high (so it sounded pleasant) while scrunching the video (so the phone could play it cleanly). The audio bitstream accounts for half the file size.

I would love to have time to actually try this stuff myself. I have a GK-2a pickup and an old GM-70 I picked up on Trade Me; one day I'll manage to get it all set up and have a play. (Perhaps by then I'll have a Graphtech Ghost setup and an Axon AX100 instead.)