Exporting HD footage in final cut pro

Hey guys, not sure if anyone can help me or not, but i'll post away anyway.
I'm using a Canon Vixia HG20 video camera for videowork at a summercamp. it shoots in full HD at 1920x1080.
I'm editing with Final Cut Pro 7 and my first project is an 8 minute short film.    So i use the Log and Transfer window which successfully captures all my clips into .Mov files at 1920x1080.
the problem is that the file sizes are huge!  i've just completed the film and my exported 8 minute movie is around 6.51GB,  which is way too big for YouTube which is where i'd like to upload it.
Does anyone know what export settings i should use to get this file down to roughly 1GB in size for YouTube?   or is there something else i'm doing wrong?
Any help would be appreciated,
Cheers.
HB

The file size is huge because your Canon Vixia captures in AVCHD, which is not natively supported in FCP. In order to work with the footage, Final Cut converts it to Pro Res (unless you specified another format in the Log and Capture window). Pro Res is much larger than AVCHD.
So with your exported file, open compressor and go to "other workflows" where you will find a few presets for Web streaming. The format to use is up to you, but I prefer H.264. You may have to adjust resolution sizes ( i think it defaults to a 320X240)..
Expect the file to be a bit larger than 1 gb, but it's still smaller than before. Good luck.

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