Going from Flash to .mov to MP4

Hey everyone. I'm using Flash CS4 on a Mac and I'm wanting to get my Flash file into an MP4 format for Articulate Presenter. What I've tried doing is exporting my Flash file as a .mov file and then taking that file into iMovie 8 and converting it to MP4. Works great except... my MP4 is bigger than my original swf. I was told that MP4s are smaller than swfs, but not in this case. I'm not doing any compressing when I'm making my .mov file in Flash. If I compress at all, the quality is horrible. So I do 'None' compression at highest settings. That's the only way I can get a good-quality video. But still, I would think that making that into a MP4 should be smaller than a swf file.
Can anyone help me, here, please? I'd really appreciate it. How am I supposed to get my Flash file to an MP4 H.264?

Does anybody have some suggestions?

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>
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