After effects cs5 - quicktime h264 very large file size

hi,
I'm wondering if anybody can recommend a good quicktime codec for very small file sizes, for preview renders.
current project - my wmv renders are coming out around 10mb and reasonable quality which is excellent.
some of my clients don't have flip for mac so I need to render them a quicktime.
the quicktime h264 are coming out a lot bigger than expected. same timeline, pixel dimensions and frame rate = around 150mb and similar quality.
I thought in the past my h264 QT renders had been maybe double the file size of my wmv renders, not 15 x bigger.
am I missing something really obvious?
pixel size = 1000 x 250,
frame rate = 30fps,
timeline = 4m 30s
h264 quality = 50%
audio = aac stero
using after effects cs5, win7 pro
thanks in advance
s

the size of the file is directly related to the bitrate at which you encode, not frame size or fps. So, if you want a 10s clip to be 15 MB (not including sound), divide 15 MB to 10s and you get 1.5MBps bitrate, or 12Mbps. You might get better quality if you encode 2-pass VBR with max bitrate set to what you computed previously.
Anyway, it's usually better to render your comp to some losless format (QT none, or TGA sequence, etc) then compress your clip with Media Encoder. This way you can play with the settings for H.264 until you get an acceptable result, without having to render from AE every time.

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