How do I decrease the file size of my After Effects video without losing the quality?

I made a video that was 7 minutes and 11 seconds long for my brothers wedding. The quality is really good but the file size is 1.52 GB and I would rather have that be in the megabytes so that I can send it to family members. It does not have to be so low that I can send it in an email but just not so big to where I can't burn it to a disc or place on a flash drive. I realize that I have not provided much information but I don't know what you will need to help me with this problem. If you would please tell me what information you need below then I will happily provide it for you.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/684381?tstart=0 and please do a search on H.264 and WMV encoding and recommended settings - here on this forum and on the web in general. This question has been asked to death and answered equally as often. Even a lazy search will turn up hundreds of usable answers.
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