Exporting To Highest Quality for DVD

Hi, I'm preparing to send a 12-minute short documentary that I shot on a GL2 to a film festival, and they need to receive it on a DVD. What is the best quality format to export it to (without Compressor)? H.264 as a .mov file? I exported it to .mov file using mp4 compression, but the quality was not nearly as good as I would have liked, but if there's a way to export to a "DVD-quality" image without spending hours exporting H.246, I'll be happy. Thanks.
Intel MacBook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2GB RAM, 2.16GHz CPU

Are they going to play the H.264 file (sending it as a data DVD) or are they going to play it as a video DVD?
If the latter, h.264 has nothing to do with the process.
Export your file from FCP to compressor. Select 60 min best quality and import those files (m2v + ac3) into DVDSP to create the disk.
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