DV PAL Quicktimes compression problem

I am putting out DV PAL QuickTime’s, but noticing in QT pro you can tick a button in properties that makes the compression better and the pic looks less compressed. I want to know is there a way to export them out of Final Cut so that this setting is already ticked and we are getting the highest quality straight out of final cut rather then having to recompress and save it out of QT pro. Has anyone come across this problem before is this a final cut problem or is this just a monitoring problem in other programmes. There is a big difference in quality when you tick the button in QT pro.

Jen:
As Trevor saud, export your movie as Quicktime Movie with default settings and you'll get a full quality copy of your timeline, that can use as source for any further encoding, ie. MPEG2 to use in DVDSP.
There is a big difference in quality when you tick the button in QT pro.
I think you refer to the check button named High Quality you can access when opening the movie in QT > Window > Show Movie Properties > Video Track.
When you check that option you get a better playback quality, right?
If you mean that setting, it's only a playback setting, all your quality is inside of your QT movie, you are not recompressing it. The low quality playback default come from the time when computers had not enough power to playback the DV stream at full quality.

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Something is going on in the conversion to the QT movie. In FCP X, I don't have a way to play with the conversion variables except to set "Video and Audio" and "Use current settings" (which is ProRes 422).
The only difference I see between the original audio and the Pro Tools audio is that the original audio is stereo and Pro Tools works with dual mono files (L & R). The mono files work fine in FCP and I can't imagine why QT would have a problem with these, but I haven't tried converting the files to stereo before importing into FCP.
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(1) It is immediately out of sync. It even appears to be speeded up to me initially, but this is subjective. But it is clearly out of sync throughout, not a gradual drift.
(2) When I create the audio files in the Pro Tools session, the files are automatically stored in the audio folder of the Pro Tools session. So I don't actually have to go through an export process. I just close the Pro Tools session, then open FCP X and import the audio from the Pro Tools folder.
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