Quicktime export question

hey guys
i know that quicktime export is the best for dvd because it is the same source coming out as it was going in.
my one video i exported was roughly 17 minutes long...i exported it and it came to about 300mb
i then exported a video that was only 7 minutes long and it came to 1.5gb!
both videos has the same amount of stuff going on it it...possibly the 17 minute one had even more! so why would the shorter lengthed video be such a huge file size?
i am planning on making a dvd with about 25 short lengthed films on it. most blank dvds hold 4.7 gbs so that one video being 1.5gb is kinda hurtin
why would it export that much larger? is there anything i can do to help that?
thankyou

hey
i rendered everything and exported again, althought unfortunately it still came out to be 1.5 gb!
i can't figure out what it would be...i tried something after...i imported the 1.5gb video into a new project and exported that...it came out to 80 mb which was good, but then when i deleted the other file, that 80mb video file all of a sudden became currupt! i dont know how it did because it was a totally separate exported file? :/
well i just ran out of space on my mac book pro so i was trying to find stuff to delete to save some space to continue.
i saw that itunes copies all of the songs from lime wire, so i deleted all of the lime wire copies, which was about 3 or 4 gigs.
unfortunatly when i opened my projects back up a ton of the music was offline! i suppose when i imported alot of music i chose the limewire copy instead which is unfortunate
i was freaking out when i saw this! all of these files were offline...is there any way to reconnect them with the exact file copy, thats in itunes?
even though alot of these files were offline, i still heard them on the timeline which was releaving...
im still trying to export this 7 minute long video to hopefully be less than 300mb. would there be any more of a problem now that some of the audio is offline?
all i need is a quicktime dvd quality export of it, if i get that, i suppose it doesnt even matter if i keep the project or rough stuff
please help!
thankyou

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hi iwork dev team!
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