Smaller File Sizes

Ok so I had a HD 720p Movie which I made in Final Cut Pro, The video is 2 mins 45 seconds (ish) and has lots of Color editing and Motion editing and a bit of After Effects.
I am Exporting it and it says 5 hours till it will be done :O
How can I decrease this file size but maintain high quality.
Any compressor tips or any app to download - It is being uploaded to zshare and I think it will be too big to upload :/
Maybe when Exported, Open it in quicktime and save it as a smaller file?

HD 720p...but what CODEC? HDV? XDCAM? DVCPRO HD?
Did you fully render before you exported? If not, then FCP is rendering AS it exports, thus adding more time.
What are you exporting AS? What codec? What size?
Typically you fully render your sequence. Then export a self contained QT movie...using the sequence settings. Then take that result into COMPRESSOR and compress to the format you want. H.264 is a good choice.
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