Exporting an .AVI file

I need to be able to export a sequence from FCP 5 and convert it into a .AVI file which needs to be 224 x 192 pixels but still retain as much quality as possible....
whats the best way to do this???
Thank you!
Forrest

Have you looked into flip4mac? ( www.flip4mac.com )
It was developed to export windows media formats from FCP.
good luck.
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