Best way to export/share iMovie 4 project as MPEG2 for SVCD

Hi. I plan on burning a movie project of vacation photos to SVCD, but it requires MPEG2. How can I accomplish this using iMovie4? More than half of these discs will be going to Windows computers and probably half of them won't have Quicktime to view it easily.
If I decide to skip the SVCD.... what format is the best movie format to share across the greatest number of computers without downloading Codecs or Players? AVI?

Keep in mind that just because a movie in on a CDR doesn't mean a computer can play the movie. VCD (& SVCD) requires an appropriate reader software be installed on the users computer. Finding free ones online may or may not be easy to do. If on the other hand you go to QuickTime, this is a simple and free download for both Mac and Windows based machines.
But if you have your heart set on a video CD, what program are you planning on using to create the VCD? If something like Toast, then Toast can do the conversion to MPEG for you and make the VCD.
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I am wanting to make sure the video(s) is the best quality I can make it so that it all comes out well. This is my FIRST project, so there are several things I just don't know enough about at this point - learning with this important video, must be crazy!! It looks REALLY good so far, now it is just outputting it so I can show it to the world.
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Or a similar function in the new iMovie?
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