Movie using much more space than file 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.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/MacabbiGames2010.html

I am not using mobile me, because I designed a website specifically to show my videos, and this way I can send out one page at a time without people having access to the entire gallery.
I would rather not compress the videos, as wouldn't this take some quality away.All I did was choose the "large" option on iweb
But the strange part is, why is the video listed as 5GB in size, but when I open up the contents (show file contents", I see that the actual movie is only 1-2 GB in size?
Thanks

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