Exporting Final Cut Pro movie onto CD for use on PC

I am having trouble exporting my edits onto CD so I can then take it off the CD and use it on my PC in a Powerpoint presentation. I have tried using Quicktime, Sorenson 3 and AVI. I then open the disc on my PC and it's all in separate files. I would appreciate some advice if anyone has a solution.

We do this quite a bit. As suggested, use mpeg1 (or wmv, we use mpeg1).
Don't try to make the resolution or the bit rate too high. How high depends on the performance of the actual system to be used so test it on the actual presentation machine.
Make sure you copy the files from the CD to the presentation machine hard disk. You can link the file to any folder or disk on the presentation machine, but it needs to have higher performance than you get out of some (particularly laptop) CD drives.
If you can't test it on the actual machine be conservative and test on the slowest machine you can get your hands on.
Make sure you instruct the client on copying the files to the hard disk. Remember that people will generally accept slightly smaller or softer images more readily than a sequence that jumps or skips frames.
Good Luck!

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    Message was edited by: Goldfish

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