Exporting HD Footage from iMovie

I shot some video on my minio HD cam, and I want to edit it in iMovie and export it to Facebook.
If I export it as a .mv files, it takes way to long to upload. However, if I do it as an mp4 it's small enough but I love a lot of quality in the picture.
What settings are the best to export to Facebook and keep the quality?

Hi
The reason you don´t find ProRes is that you need FCP for that.
Convert your footage to AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec), that is what imovie uses for HD footage
Cheers
Hans

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