How to Export a Quicktime Movie Reference?

I'm looking to export a quicktime reference movie that I can bring into Soundtrack Pro. I tried quicktime movie and didn't select "self-contained". I didn't see a 'reference movie' option. My timeline is a bit over an hour long. It has the 10-bit PAL sequence preset. It took around 20 minutes to make the file. The final "quicktime movie" (reference?) was 5.5 GIGABYTES (GB) in size!!! The entire timeline was already rendered out.
What am I doing wrong? I thought QT Reference Files were suposed to be tiny.

I'm also having an issue with QT Ref files this morning, and didn't think it would be prudent to start a new thread. I have searched though, and don't think this has been answered elsewhere.
I'm working on a simple timeline...I built a sequence in After Effects and exported it as a DV/NTSC sequence for use in FCP. I've synced it up with an audio track (AIFF 48khz) and am trying to export various versions of it. The first one I did was a simple QT Ref movie. It looks exactly right. When I get info on this file, it says the codec is H.264, which is weird considering the source file and timeline setting is DV/NTSC.
I made a minor edit and attempted to just export a version using Sorenson 3 w/Compressor. Wasn't happy with the results, so I tried to export a new QT Ref of the edited timeline and was going to use this in Cleaner. The new ref file's get info says it was encoded as DV/NTSC (which makes sense), but it looks terrible. I wonder if this has anything to do with my use of Compressor in between. There's nothing to render since its only native DV and AIFF, but just for good measure I've done Sequence>Render All and same results.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance. Off to toss my prefs....
EDIT: after tossing QT and FCP Prefs, no luck. When I export, it doesn't even go through the process (its only a ~:30 piece so its not that long anyway) of exporting. It flashes for a second, and the file (severely compressed) is at the destination folder.

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