Best process for scoring my movie?

Will I loose quality if I import my project to Garageband for the scoring and then use the output from Garageband (incl. video) for iDVD?
I choose to remove the video and the video sound once I had done the scoring and then export it as an audio file.
I added that to FCE.
It became one big file of the full lenght movie.
I noticed that FCE did not seem to accept ACC so I had to convert to MP3.
Does anyone have some experiences and "best practice" ?
Thanks / Christer

Are you talking about loosing video quality?
You won't loose video quality. GarageBand doesn't export the video, it uses the videos simply as a guide for you to score with. When you export, you export the audio not video.
Remember to mark as helpful or solved.
-benny

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pshdawg1 wrote:
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