Exporting a movie on a G4 without quality loss

I do not have idvd on my PowerMac G4. Can someone explain how to export a movie without quality loss? I tried the various options in the dropdown menu but they seem to cause distortion.
~Thanks

Without quality loss ... what format did you start with? What format or delivery media do you need to output? If you're going to DVD-Video, there will be a quality loss due to the amount of compression needed.
You can output a QT movie (self-contained, using current settings, do NOT recompress!) that should be an exact duplicate of your sequence.
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