Rendering issues in after effects cs5

Hi, I am currently using the trial version
of adobe production premium cs5
and I am having problems with the rendering. It works fine, but for some reason it keeps making these sort of huge files, like a 1min14 video gave me a 12 gb file! Then I decided to change the format from avi to quicktime, and from animation to photo jpeg. It did help alot, by reducing it to 2gb, but that still is a very big file! So basically I'm not sure what to do.
I need help please!
Thank you
ps: this is in after effects (just a heads up)

See this FAQ entry:
"FAQ: Why is my output file huge...?"

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Date:
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Keywords:
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