Confirming no loss of quality on export "Movie to DV Stream"?

This may be a very dumb question, but before I spend a lot of time on this, I wanted to confirm there is NO loss of quality.
From a DV file (imported form my DV camera) if I choose a portion of it in Quicktime and export using the feature "Movie to DV Stream" there is no loss of quality from the original DV file right?
I am working on an iMovie project, opening the original LONG DV files into Quicktime and pulling shortened clips from them to import into iMovie, so as not to import the whole thing.
Before I spend time doing this for my entire project, I want to make sure there is no loss of quality from my original DV footage.
Thanks for the help!
Cheryl
MacBook 2.0 GHz 2GB iMac G5 1.8GHz 2GB   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

export using the feature "Movie to DV Stream" there is no loss of quality from the original DV file right?
There will be loss of quality if you export via iMovie's expert settings! The video is deinterlaced and the embedded timestamp is lost!! This is an old bug.
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#expertsettings
To preserve the original quality you must therefore always remember to export via the Full Quality preset instead.

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    So, I tried various renderings with and without it, the words, the static...and eventually came to find out that it was the "Static" video that was doing it. I suppose it may have been because that video was originally 640x480, and I just zoomed into it to make it fit the screen. For whatever reason, that was the problem, and when I re-encoded it with the static gone, it worked just fine.
    Thanks for your help, though!

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