im doing a part in a musical animated collaboration with a guy on youtube and when im finished with the animation i need to have it as a movie file like, .mpeg4, .avi, something like that.
every time i try to use the regular export button in the files bar it comes out with bad quality and glitches in the animation. i know alot of people record there animations or use file converters to upload to youtube in high quality so i want to know if theres anyone i could have on stand by to hand my .fla over and give it back to me in a movie file (preferably the mpeg) once im finished animating it. this would be a huge favor, id owe you one. thanks!

I don't know if this will help you, but here: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/flash-intro/export/
Also, I don't really know if anyone will help you since it should be something you can do yourself. Just find a plugin
for flash to convert your animation, or use Adobe media encoder. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/video_encoder.html

does the encodor need CS5 to work?

If you read the first sentence of the page I linked it would tell you.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/video_encoder_flcs4.html cs4
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/archive/flash/articles/video_encoder_flcs3.html cs3