Quicktime file not so small?

Hello All,
I had a video project that I edited in FCE4 and the file ended up just over 12GB. I wanted to make it much smaller so I used JES to covert it to H.264. It took about 3 hours to covert the file but at the end it only shrank down to 7GB. Does this sound right? I thought when you converted to quicktime it really shrank the file way down.
What I'm trying to do is export the project to a 4GB USB flash drive (or even smaller). Can this be done? Of course I want it in the quality that Quicktime delivers. Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks for your help,
Mike

Hello All,
I just want to give everyone an update on the quicktime. I followed Ian's process and it worked very well. I tried it on a different project then I first had mentioned. I tried it on a project that was 1 hour and 46 minutes long. The quality was not bad at all (considering it REALLY shrank down the file size). The only downside is it took almost 6 hours to compress the file (OUCH!).
The end result is I wanted to share this file with relatives on a USB flash drive. I could have used a bigger file but the USB drive would have cost me around 50-60 dollars (for 16GB where I live) and now it will fit on a USB that only cost 14.00 (2GB).
Thanks for your help.
Mike

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