Exporting self contein movie for authoring

I need to make a selfcontain movie for DVD authoring house. Shell I export uncompressed or DV NTSC compression is good enough. Is there a noticable difference or there is no difference and I will be wasting my time and space on the hard disc using "non" compression?
Thanks.

Joni,
Are you sure there is no loss? The reason I ask is that I have done that and then brought it into After Effects and can see artifacts from the compression that takes place. Also, the file sizes are so much smaller than if you use Quicktime conversion. I have used self contain for many projects and it seems to work fine. I'm no expert but I believe some compression must be taking place.
Thanks,
Ymir
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