Large mov files rendered

My camera produced a 14-second video 1280 x 720 pixels into a 48 MB mov file. Opening that in Photoshop CS6, making no changes, and rendering that in Quicktime with the JPEG 2000 high quality preset, Photoshop produced a 346 MB mov file. Reducing the original video size to 600 x 338 pixels and rendering in Quicktime with the JPEG 2000 medium quality preset, I still got a 67 MB mov file.
Since my goal is to put these online, these large files present a problem. What is causing Photoshop to render such huge files many times the size of the original?

When you choose JPEG 2000 as a video format, every frame is saved as a complete individual still frame. There is no way you will get a small file size that way. (Other video formats save space by saving one frame, then record only the changes in the next several frames before saving another complete frame.) The complete individual frames preserve the most quality if you're going to use the rendered video as part of another production. The other two QuickTime choices, Animation and Uncompressed, also produce large files for the same reason. They're also intended for production, not final output. If you're going to take this video and edit it together with other clips, then JPEG 2000 makes sense but you have to live with the large file size.
If you are rendering this out as a final video and your next step is to upload it online, QuickTime/JPEG 2000 is not the format you want. Change the Format from QuickTime to H.264, which is the far more compact and online-friendly format required by YouTube, Vimeo, etc. for uploading to their sites.

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