Compressing movie to correct size

All of this is new to me, and I have several movies that I have made, however in the quicktime format they are too big for posting, could somebody please help me with how I can make the movie smaller size and still be decent looking in the process?
thanks
l

Hi Klaus1, and Thank you!,
a lot of my movies I have made are about 160 mb, In order to post them on youtube, I need them to be 100 mb or smaller, I know I was playing around one time on the share features and selected a different file format and was able to compress the file to a smaller size using something other than .mov, however I have not a clue as to what I did, or what to do now.
I really have no idea as to how anything works with the file compression.
any advice will be great!
thanks
l

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