Convert movies in iMove

Hi Everybody.
I have edited a video in iMovie with some clips. Now that I have this project done, I'd like to convert the file in .avi or .mpg or whatever. It seems that I'm not finding a good way to convert the file. I mean, the quality of the video converted is very low and the amount of Mb is pretty high. For a 3 min video, I have a file converted of 100 Mb, which is too high if you consider the poor quality of the video. I've tried to play with some settings but without great results.
Does anybody have any suggestion for me? Thanks!
Matteo

Matt, I've recordered some little movies with a sony digital camera (15/20 sec each) in max resolution. They are 250 mb all of them. I've used iMovie in order to put them together and the project file is 770 mb. I'm trying to convert the project in .avi or .mpg file. When I choose, for exemple, .avi file, I can adjust some options such as the bit rate, video size, quality, ect. I put the max level option to have a big file (around 200 mb) and I'm expectibg a good quality. Unfortunately the quality is vary bad (you don't see videos of that bad quality over the Internet). This happens with .mpg file too.
Under your experience, what is, for you, the best choice to convert a video file? Do you have any tips about this?
Thanks
Matteo

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