File Size & Export Problems

Hi, my name's Jorge and I have a couple of questions.
First, is I make machinima movies and my latest movie is 21:48 long. In order for it to be uploaded to a certain website, it needs to be under 200 MB's. I'd like the visual quality to at least be decent.
What is the best way to export my movie from FCE and have it under 200 MB's?
I'm pretty sure this can be done, because a while ago, someone else made a movie that was also 21 minutes long and the file size for her movie was only 131 MB's, and I can't seem to make mine less than 319.2 MB's.
This brings me to a problem I'm having. I've signed to be an official director at Machinima.com and they require the movies to be in wmv format. It also says that the movie files would be smaller sizes, so I figured that would help my file size problem.
So I tested it out, trying to export my movie from FCE at the wmv specs they required, but it only exports 30 seconds of the movie. (?) Why is this happening and what can I do to fix this?
Since I have signed on with Machinima.com, I need to be able to export my movies in this wmv format.
Any help would be SO GREATLY appreciated.
Jorge

So I tested it out, trying to export my movie from FCE at the wmv specs they required, but it only exports 30 seconds of the movie. (?) Why is this happening and what can I do to fix this?
The trial version of flip4mac only allows up to 30 seconds per export. You'll need to purchase one of the flip4mac plugins if you want to export a complete video.
http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm
-DH

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