Exporting MOV from FCP

I'm trying to export small sections of 720p footage from my timeline so I can can do some keying in Boris Red. What I've been doing is selecting the video, hitting enter to pop it up into the viewer, then exporting the clip using file:export:quicktime movie. I've set the clip to be self-contained and tried a variety of codecs. The problem is that when I export the file it's not adhering to the in and out points set in the viewer or even the length of the clip. I've tried every codec and the only one that worked was exporting it as a generic Uncompressed 10bit file but then it's too small when I get into Boris so I have to scale it up to 150% and, of course, the quality of the video suffers.
Any ideas?
-Matt

You want REGION Select.
This thread discusses a number of ways to export short segments/clips/regions.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8724206#8724206
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