Best Codec for good audio/video when exporting to 3G in FCP

I have FCP 6.06. I have a few videos I've tried converting to 3G using Quick Time Conversion and every setting: Default, 3GPP - Release 5, 3GPP2 - Release A, 3GPP - Mobile MP4, 3GPP2 - EZmovie and AMC - EZmovie. Every one has blurry video and poor quality audio both when I play it on my computer and after I copy it to my phone. Any ideas why and how I can improve the quality of the video and audio which looks good in FCP before conversion.

joey848 wrote:
Don't use FCP for delivery compression. That's what Compressor's for.
True, but the same options will be available from within Compressor. I've never had to export to 3G and I can't test it at the moment. Hope you get better answers.
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