Resizing files to a size for email

I profess modest knowledge about this subject and have posted here before. I take video clips with my Casio EX S700 card camera--these are produced in a .AVI container and require a file in the Quicktime Library to be viewed on my Macs--this file is available on the Casio website. This all works fine. But a 26 second file is about 12 megabytes, really too large to email. I have been resizing these via Quicktime Pro (Sorenson Video 3, low quality, lower frame rates, and smaller size 120x160). I have played around a bit with these settings and this file ends up around 3-4 megabytes, but of course, much smaller to view. I have discovered the following. If I convert the .AVI original 12 megabyte file to a Quicktime movie of the same size and quality, it ends up about 28 megabytes. If, however, I then use MPEG Streamclip to export it to mpeg4, I can create a virtually identical file for viewing of about 3 megabytes, including the 640x480 size. To my eye it looks almost identical to the 28 megabyte QT file. Anyone? Any way to skip the middle step and convert a .AVI file directly with MPEG Streamclip?

"But a 26 second file is about 12 megabytes, really too large to email."
"I am reluctant to use the share in Apple Mail to resize them."
Try any of the following:
If you both have High-speed connections, the easiest & fastest way is through AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), iChat, Adium. Not sure about Yahoo IM or Google IM as I do not use them. Probably does as they are also intergrated into Adium.
I send all my music & movie files through IM instead of using email.
iChat has the same ability of transferring large files as AIM.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=150934
Adium
If you must use email, then YouSendIt is the best way to go for all your large files.

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