Exporting in MP4 - is it possible?

I have been doing all my i Movie videos in H264 as .mov for awhile, but recently had the luck of getting a PS3 (its awesome!). The PS3 understands H264 (Sony calls this AVC), but not .mov. So I want to export movies as MP4 so I can watch them on my TV through my PS3. Is this possible?
Thanks.

hmm, my 'naked' (=without mov container) generated h264 have all the extension mp4 ... so, I can not repeat your observations (no PS3 either.. owning a SuperNintendo.... 96?)
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I had very similar issues that really seemed to get worse when we got new monitors, which is what lead me to chime in here. The monitors were also wide gamut displays.
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http://www.artstorm.net/journal/2009/07/color-management-wide-gamut-dell-2408/
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