Best formats to export for a CD

Hi, I have a little question on which I hope some people might be able to offer some insight. I completed two short videos for a competition, and now I need to prepare the deliverables. Ultimately, they both need to be burned to an ordinary CD, and should be under 100mb (combined, I think).
The first video was shot on an HD NTSC video camera, and edited in FCP. The second was shot on a regular NTSC DV cam. Both videos are around 30 seconds, so they are not very long.
My question is, what setting would you recommend to export these for CD. What would provide the best quality for a combined file size of about 100mb. And, at what frame size?
Also, I'm not quite sure what to do for the pixel aspect ratio. Since I assume this is going to be viewed on a computer, should I set it to square pixels? Or, for some settings, does Compressor compensate for this? I ask because I think I did a few preliminary tests and they exports seemed to be stretched quite a bit vertically.
Okay, I would really appreciate any help you guys could give. I'm running out of time and need to finish up and export these for a Friday deadline. Thanks!

If the movie you exported from Premiere was satisfactory, you could just copy the settings.
If quality is paramount and drive space is plentiful, use a lossless codec like Quicktime Animation (100% quality), Quicktime PNG, or Quicktime Uncompressed.
If space is a problem, use a compressed format like ProRes (if you have it) or Quicktime PhotoJPEG.

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