Compressing Large .Mov Files to Data DVD

Hello everyone. I was looking for some advice on how best to compress the HD footage of a wedding I did, onto Data DVD's, so that if the family would ever want to do anything with the footage, they would be able to access it. I am aware that in compressing it, there is a loss of quality but It would be overkill to have them buy a hard drive and all that. I'm not overly worried about the quality being HD in the raw footage because I already have the best parts on the finished Wedding DVD. My question is, what format do I compress it to? I want to do in .MOV because I feel that it be the most universal and highest quality in years to come, but how do I get a 70 GB HD File down to under 4 gigs for the disc? I also want the audio and video file to be linked if possible. Any thoughts? Thanks.

I'm in a similar situation. My first project worked fine, but now I have a problem with my second project.
So far I've just been doing weddings in SD but I wanted to start experimenting with HD and so borrowed a Panasonic HS700 video camera to use for the stationary wide angle shot. One of the couples I dealt with this summer have a computer hooked up to their HDTV, so I gave them a DVD data disk with the 1920 x 1020 HD footage of the ceremony, reception speeches, and first few dances: a total of 96 minutes that used up 3.3 GB of data. This works out to about 0.58 MB/sec. The quality is fairly soft, but that actually helped reduce some of the graininess from a low-lighted hall. Quite adequate quality under the circumstances and it fit on a regular DVD.
I was encouraged by this so thought I would do it again on the next wedding. Using the exact same custom setting I had made in Compressor, I encoded the 39 minute ceremony but this time it used up 7 GB (2.94 MB/sec) which doesn't fit on a regular DVD. The only difference in the footage is it was an outdoor ceremony on a sunny day, so the palette of colors is much more varied than the dingy hall of the first wedding (thinking back to the days when I was concerned about the size of jpegs). But it was an essentially static scene, so why would it take up 5 times the memory space?
A cheap alternative in this case would be an 8GB USB drive, but for future reference, I'd like to know why the difference between the two projects.
Here are the settings: I basically took an H.264 preset and lowered the Quality from High to Medium (don't know what bit rate that represents - not sure what the numbers in the last few lines mean).
Name: H.264 Medium Quality with AAC
Description: QuickTime H.264 video with PCM audio at 48 kHz. Settings based off the source resolution and frame-rate.
File Extension: mov
Estimated file size: unknown
Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Selected: 1920 x 1080
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Selected: 29.97
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 49
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Key frame interval: 24
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25

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