Compression of Raw Digital Camera Footage

My digital camera creates 30 FPS; 640 x 480; 7.875 kHz .MOV files. But they come out uncompressed. I purchased Quicktime Pro yesterday because I thought that they would allow me to compress my movies. But when I export using the default settings (H.264 compression), the "compressed" file ends up larger than the uncompressed file.
What am I doing wrong?
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Your camera has already done the compression and no conversion is needed.
"Raw" camera source is usually DV Stream and it is about 13 GB's per hour.

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WHY ??? ....all this messy color calibration with slider inside the raw 3.1 plugin , when it could be so easy and simple :
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