Best export for a .VOB from MPEG Streamclip to iMovie?

Hi,
My source is a DVD and I want to make sure that the two minutes I end up with in iMovie is of the best quality.
I own the Quicktime MPEG-2 thing and, becase of timecode errors, I have opened the .VOB in MPEG Streamclip and I am asking myself, "Which Export, Convert, Demux do I use?"
In the discussions I have seen a lot of recommendations for Exporting to a DV Stream.
If this is the best quality, which compression? DV25, DV25PRO or DV50PRO? Additionally, aside from checking "Split DV Stream...", what other options (Frame blending, deinterlace, better downscaling) should I check?
What about simply Demuxing the VOB and placing the mpeg2/aiff into iMovie -> contents-> media? Can iMovie handle a mpeg2 and, if so, wouldn't that allow the greatest amount of flexibility?
BTW - I don't know what the end product is going to be, which is why I want to have the flexibilty and highest quality.
Thanks!

Video-DVDs (VOBs inside the VIDEO_TS folders) use 48 kHz audio so you don't need to touch the resample button in MPEG Streamclip.
I don't want to lose information if I don't have to.
Yes... You are already dealing with a VOB -> DV conversion which degrades quality... If possible, I'd get the original source and digitize that to DV, so there wouln't be any quality degradation from the detour to DVD.
Or, if that fails, edit the VOBs with apps like MPEG Streamclip -- that won't degrade DVD quality level either. But then you'd have to forget the iLife apps because they don't support this kinb of workflow.

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