How to FCE file sizes before export?

Hey, I've been making short movies each day and I have to upload them on deadline but I've been late twice now b/c the file sizes were so large that they couldn't upload in time. Is there anyway to know how large the QT movie will be before I export the project? That way, I won't have any more wasted effort to include things that I later have to cut due to file size and countdown to deadline. Thanks!
My project have been in the way of 31-65 MB and they take at least 30 minutes to upload to our cms.

Unfortunately there's no way to know what the file size will be before you export. 35-60MB is actually not bad for a movie file, but if you need it smaller play with the FCE compression settings.

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