Does Final Cut Pro have good compressing capabilities?

FCP X has a very good variety of compression options.

Your target size, however, is fairly aggressive and may require involvement of a compression application – depending on your video frame size and rate.

To get to a 200 MB size for 10 minutes requires compression with a data rate of about 2.5 Mb per second. That may produce acceptable quality at 540 and 720 sizes in H.264, but is probably stretching it too far for 1080. However, FCP's default data rates are somewhat higher than that – around 7 Mb per second for 720P.

If you absolutely need to meet those targets, I suggest that you invest $50 in Compressor, which can output files with that rate. Alternatively, try MPEG Streamclip, which is free. Both apps can batch process.

Good luck.

Russ

iMovie should do everything you need.

When you Share you can elect to have it encoded for Vimeo/YouTube and have it automatically uploaded.

If you prefer to do it manually (much better!) you can select the output resolution and also the amount of compression.

The Medium and Low settings should use a lower bit rate resulting in smaller file sizes.

Note that there will be an inevitable but hopefully, small reduction in quality.

With the resolution set to 1280x720 and the quality set to Low you should get a file size of around 300MB for a ten minute movie.

Reducing the resolution to 960x540 will give a 200MB file.

Using 854x480 will give around 150MB. This size should be perfectly acceptable.

It won't take you long to test each setting and see whether they meet your needs or not.

I forgot to mention that you can select any bit rate you wish by choosing the Custom Quality option and moving the slider.