Highest compression for archive purposes

Hey Everyone,
I'm looking to compress my videos at very high quality for storage using compressor. (some of my videos are 1-2 minutes others are 5 minutes). I tried a couple of times but my exports were 20 gb...too large.
In case I ever put together a demo reel or something, i'd like for my archives to be at the highest quality with the minimum space being taked up. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Many institutions use MPEG-2 at very high data rates for archival or mezzanine storage. You can do this in Compressor. Create a custom MPEG-2 setting; set the stream usage to Generic; and then crank the bitrate up as high as you want to go...with the understanding that the higher the bitrate the better the quality, but the larger the file size. If you move the slider all the way up to 40 for SD material you can get around 3 minutes per gig.
You can then choose Program Stream in the extras tab and YUV encoding (Compressor 3.5) for higher quality muxed files.
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