FCP 5.1 / YouTube Size Question

Hi,
I have recently been doing work at my university on FCP 5.1 and I want to export the videos at the best quality possible for upload to YouTube - but I also want decent quality ones to put on my website.
What are the general sizes of a 5 min video exported? I usually get large (1GB) file sizes; is that about normal?
As for exporting the video for website, I've tried many settings but cannot seem to consistently get good quality AND small file sizes. Sometimes it works, and other times it's terrible.
All of the footage is DV captured, and in 16:9 format.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am still learning a lot about FCP (I'm usually an audio guy!).
Thanks.
[Edit; I have searched for FCP 5, and read some of the YouTube search hits ; but a lot of them are talking about highest quality etc which I did not feel was applicable to this topic.]
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if I send that to someone, will it automatically be viewed in the proper dimensions?
Yes. You have to save it in that state, then it will display with the correct aspect ratio.
For YouTube videos - are they generally very large file sizes?
There's no fixed rule to what folks upload -some will post stuff shot with their phone cam for instance. You can post most common formats so long as it is not more than 2GB and 10 minutes long.
The last one I put up was a 900MB, 3.5 minute, 16:9 DV file. It fills the YouTube screen and looks good.

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