Best quality on 700MB

Hi all
I have a big movie (50min, 10Go if I export it in .avi) on imovie and I want to export in a 700 MB file with the original quality. How I do that ?
Tanks a lot !
(I'm french so excuse me for the spelling mistake...)

10 GB to 700 MB with no loss in quality? That's not going to happen.
You might try exporting as mpg-4 (H.264) and vary the quality settings until you get the size you want.

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