Premiere Pro CS4: Exporting

First of all, thank you to everyone who has helped me so far. I am not really "into" video editing and therefore do not know very much about it. I am however trying to make a film to document my wifes pregnancy (our first born). I have really learned a lot form these forums and I just wanted to say thank you.
I read the faq on the best export settings and also saw the help video. They all pretty much say the same thing: there is no best export setting, it just depends on what youre trying to do.
So I have footage taken from my Canon Powershot sd960. It shoots at 720p 30fps. I chose these in my settings when i started the project. I have created the first "short film" which runs at about 12 minutes. I have watched it and it looks great!
The problem? This 12 minute movie takes up almost 2 GB of space after export. I have full length DVD movies that take up much less. I was wondering if there was a way to export 16:9 30fps (i tried 24 fps and the movie is very choppy) and not have it take up so much space. The final movie could be as long as 75-90 minutes and I cant have a 75GB file you know?
The current setting i used was MPEG-2 HDTV 720p 29.97 high quality.
I really dont need the final product to be HD, just 16:9 widescreen and 30 fps (if this is possible). I am just trying to get this type of file to a managable size. Again, since i dont really do this a whole lot, im not sure if i am asking for the impossible or not. Thanks in advance fo your help.
Don

If your movie is for dvd just export it to mpeg2-dvd with default settings in Premiere.
90 minutes should fit on a dvd, you might want to tweek the bitrate to make the file size smaller.
Don't export to HD content to dv-avi you will loose quality.
Use Dynamic link to Encore and let Encore do the math for you if you do not get a descent export from Premiere.
Edit: adressing Cheezweazel not Jim.

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