Compressing finished movie

I produced a 3 min trailor in iMovie HD and tried to email it to a friend. It could not be sent because the file is too large, (my email is restricted to 10 megs and the movie is 10.6). I tried to compress it in quicktime and the problem is the option at the end only allows you to send it out through a .Mac account.

concerning mpeg-4...
I'm a real evangelist, "preaching" iSquint
as THE ultimate mpeg-4 encoder (and its free!)... made a few tests with some of my movies, e.g. titles are crystal clear and much sharper, compared to the results of the QT algorithm... (iSquint uses one of the ffmpeg project)
and, as mish wrote: lowering the framerate makes files smaller, dramatically...
mish,
I recommended you as ".iso hacker" - would you please have a look at this thread? thanks...
sorry, bigduke, for misusing your thread as "messaging service"... have no email of mish... :-/

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