Movie taking up more space than the size

Hello. I published a movie in imovie to the media gallery in HD. It is a long video, so I knew it would take up a lot of space. It is listed as 5 GB in my imovie project folder. However, when I "show package contents" of the movie, the actual size of the 720 movie is only 1.3 gb. All of the other folders listed in the contents are just a few MB. Any idea why this is using 5gb of not only my hard drive, but of my Mobile Me space, when it seems like the video should only be using 1.5 GB.
You can see the video here, but obviously it takes some time to buffer.
Thanks.
http://web.me.com/andysinger1/ClassicVideo/AJ_E_onslide.html

http://web.me.com/andysinger1/ClassicVideo/Media/Jabob%2012%20bday-720p.mov
It is 99.92 MB's in file size.

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