1080 24p footage ready for youtube. best settings?

I've got a video that was shot in 1080 24p in Apple ProRess 422
i'm ready to send it to youtube. what's the best way to get it from my timeline to youtube with having the best quality and smallest size?
i've tried using Quicktime Conversion for h.264 out of final cut with multipass and best quality with automatic kbps setting.
is there something else i should do? should i send to compressor? is there another setting? a better kbps setting i should use?
because when i use my settings as i mentioned above, i love the quality, it's just my videos are still very large (4 minutes is about 2.7GB's) and it takes forever to export and upload to youtube

Hi There,
I'm no expert here but i have just sent a video to youtube a very crude way but it looks pretty good and it was 1080.
Select your sequence then FILE-EXPORT-QUICKTIME MOVIE
Once its on the desktop open the movie using Quicktime X, on the playback bar there is a little arrow icon, click this and there is an option to export to youtube, enter your user name and password and your away.
My movie took about 1.5hrs to upload.
Not an ideal solution but a quick and dirty way of getting your HD stuff onto youtube looking fairly decent !
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dave.

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