Widescreen export loses quality

I'm having trouble exporting widescreen video and getting a suitable size/quality compromise. Using Share > QuickTime > CD-ROM makes a fuzzy and stilted .mov. Full quality export (.dv) looks great, but the files are massive. Oddly, I haven't had this problem when the movies are 4:3. Then the CD-ROM setting does just fine and produces a good quality .mov. I can even drag the window bigger without too much pixilation. Doing this using the same export settings but 16:9 looks horrible. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Zoosnake wrote:
Wow, that looks great! The movie actually looks better than the 'full quality' dv, and it's a quarter of the size!
.. you got tricked (punkd?)...
DV is by far superior in quality, it is miniDVs and iMHD6 native internal codec..
but..
read and see the pics, David Babsky's providing in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9781245
h264 is mainly meant for playback - not for editing, as DV is ..
and a playback codec should be smaller..
mpeg2 are smaller too.. but not meant for editing either..

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<pre wrap="">courtney (n h c) wrote:
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