How to Make My Video Files Smaller to Share?

Hi,
Most of the videos that I exported from FinalCuto Pro are huge.
I exported the video to AppleTV even though this's not my intention. A 12min video give me about 500MB which
is way too big. Then I used Handbrake to convert my video at lower bitrate. The video becomes about 100MB but
its quality is not good.
My question is what's the best way to export my video. What software would be good to use to convert my
video to a smaller size but still retain some good quality.
Some movie videos that I downloaed have longer duration than my simple video but its file sizes are much smaller.
The pictures are still clear. That's why I just wonder.
Thanks.

Just curious: why not use one of the smaller You Tube presets in FCPX? Say, 720 or 540. (Assuming you're working in HD.)
If you don't want to buy Compressor, Squeeze, etc. but want more control over the size, consider downloading MPEG Streamclip. It's a free app that has much of (though not all of) the functionality of the others. And it's pretty fast.
I realize you asked your last question of GigzHD, but if I were you I would edit in the size I shot. In other words, I would want to work with as much information as possible as long as possible and limit the number of compressiom steps to as few as possible. And of course, scaling your movie in any compression software as a prliminary step will add some encoding time which may be considerable. (No free lunch.)
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