IMovie Export Video Quality Drop!

Hi mac people,
I using mavericks's imovie, 10.0.5,
I have this problem long ago just don't take it seriously but now it do annoying me now,
I have done a video and decide to export it, it approximate 1.2gb, but the final video exported just 204mb(screen shot below),
the audio quality is significant dropped, how can I make it back as good as original quality?
thanks!!!

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MOBILE
click to enlarge
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