Photoshop Motion Workspace. Rendering videos.

This is probably a pretty simple one but I'm not a video editor.
Ive played round with the photoshop motion editor CC and the result is about a forty something MB file in psd format before rendering out through Adobe Media Encoder.
File/Export/Render to video gives me enormous file sizes on a two minute test video.
For example, (sorry the insert image seems to be greyed out in this forum so no screenshots)
H246, Low Quality, 1920x1080, 28.126fps, aspect + Document (1.0) gives me a 121MB file
I've tried every combination varying the H246/Quicktime, image size, quality, mobile phone and tablets presets and the smallest file size Ive seen to date is 14MB ... on the two minute video.
There must be a way of getting rendered file sizes down to a few MB for you tube uploads and playing on phones and tablets and emailing? I was expecting to be able to dial in the videos physical pixel dimensions and file size, like one can when working with still images.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
Thanks

The presets for photoshop using h.264 encoded video's use quicktime for compressing the video. So you might find better codecs for quicktime from apple's site.
That said, I believe that the media encoder has a larger variety of formats and codecs with it. I was told though that the media encoder has some of it formats and codecs locked to certain adobe apps. In other words you need to have access to those apps on your system for those formats and codecs to be available to you.
The presets in media encoder will set some of the options for you like the frames per second and resolution. But just because you use a preset, does not mean you can not alter its settings.
All the compression for an mpeg movie does is looks at it color values and sees what it can throw out. It then will try to match as many frames as possible throwing out duplicates. At some point the file can not be compressed any more. Or I should say without degrading the video to a point where it is noticeable to the viewer. WMV files are well known for going to far. Some videos you can not make out what is in the clip.
There is one more alternative for compressing file time, reducing the over all play time, by clipping out portions of the video.
So It boils down to how do you want to compromise to get that file size down. Compress more until jpeg artifacts start showing up, reduce resolution(SD is probably as low as I would go for web, but for phones, go lower) , reduce frames per seconds (15fps for web 10-12fps for phones), or clip the video(where ever you can loose valuable footage).
What ever you choose, it must be done on a copy, as all of this is destructive. In that once done no way to get it back. Keep all originals in full quality, uncompressed, unedited form if possible.
Also keep in mind h264 is an mpeg format and is a lossy format which means it needs to be the final format for sharing as opening and saving degrades the quality.

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