Mov file is stuttering.... correct conversion?

Hi all,
I created a simple movie in iMovie which contains pictures, video and a voice over. After exporting the final movie, the .mov file now plays with continuous stuttering throughout the video. The audio is fine. I converted the video to an .m4v file and it was fixed. The problem is that the website I'm looking to export it to only accepts certain file types, and .m4v is not one of them. My preference is to get it into a functioning .mov file which doesn't lose the quality or bump up the file size to twice what it is. Simply stopping the stuttering would solve everything.
Thanks for your time!

So I just tried something which kind of worked.... I changed the export settings to Apple Intermediate Codec and it's working fine. The problem is that it's doubled the file size. Initially the file came out as an H264, which is my preference.
What's with the stuttering! Help!

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