Export FULL HD, changes in COMPRESSOR QUALITY huge change in final movie

Hello. I have the SONY SR12E camcorder and shoot my movies in FULL HD 1920x1080 and use Final Cut (what else.. to render and get my final movies. I use Log and transfer to capture my movies into Final Cut and then Send to Compressor to create the final movie.
But I have an issue with the differences in FILE SIZE when I change the Compressor Quality from Encoder -> "Video : Settings...." in Compressor.
For example, ALL of the stream/clips (156 minutes total video) that I want to turn into a movie is a folder *20.4 GB* in size
When I submit ALL these clips into compressor and use COMPRESSOR QUALITY : BEST, I get a final movie file with size *72,4 GB* for the 156 minutes of FULL HD video.
When I lower a little the COMPRESSOR QUALITY to HIGH, the final movie is *28,7 GB* a lot of Gigabytes lower than 72,4 (and my WD TV could playback this file on my HighDef tv, but the 72,4 is playing with "stops" every 2-3 seconds)
When I play both output movies, I could not notice any difference in the video quality on my Apple 30'' monitor or my 46'' LCD Samsung, it seems the same to my eyes.
So WHY there is SO MUCH DIFFERENCE in movie size when using COMPRESSOR QUALITY : BEST and COMPRESSOR QUALITY : HIGH ....?
Since the folder with all the clips is just 20 Gigabytes HOW IS it possible to get a 72,4 Gigabyte movie when using BEST compressor quality?
Thanks,
Moschos.

I know how is this done, I work with Final Cut about a year. But you seem to don't know that THERE IS A H U G E difference both in Quality and SPEED if you export from within Final Cut and if you SEND TO COMPRESSOR which is the most correctly. First, you can select more details and settings from within Compressor and Compressor uses ALL THE CORES of my Mac Pro Nehalem 8 core which is not happening when you just export from within Final Cut. On the other hand, when you SEND TO COMPRESSOR you can then continue working with Final Cut Pro instead of the other way where you can not do anything.
Anyway, thanks...

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