Best codec for theatrical video?

I shot a stage performance on a Sony DVCam (not HD) and want to preserve the highest quality. Can I do better than just creating it as a large movie? I will be burning it in iDVD at the highest setting there, even if I have to split it into 2 disks.

Apple Video was the first codec from Apple, about 15 years ago. It's a 15 bit color codec that uses high data rates to get ok quality. Any of the DV ones are 720x480 for NTSC, so you'd lose your resolution. Apple Intermediate Codec is frequently used for HD editing, and will exceed the quality of your M2T file (though obviously it won't improve it). It may be a little demanding for some machines to play.
You might look at Motion Jpeg (A or B). Those are in the 2-4 MB/sec range, similar to DV (about 13 GB/hour), and at the highest quality should be as good as the MPEG-2 stream.
There are a few uncompressed options. The one you looked for is actually called None, but there's also Animation when set to millions of colors and highest quality, and there are video based uncompressed codec, such as Blackmagic (you would have to track down the components for that). Even Apple Component is a good codec, it makes the files half the size of the really uncompressed video codecs, but still looking good.
For what you want, I would try the Apple Intermediate one or the Motion JPEG ones. If you want to have as good quality but save some disk space, try H264 set to around 10 megabits/sec. That will far exceed the quality of the MPEG-2 stream, but wil take half the disk space. It will take a long time to compress.

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