Final Cut Express Audio Format

I have been editing my video in Final Cut Express, setting bars and tones for -12 db, making sure my audio is peaking at -12db. I then use the "Export to Quicktime Movie" command to prepare it for making a dvd that will be used for broadcast tv.
I then burn a dvd of this project with idvd.
Can you tell me what kind of audio file is created by idvd and final cut express during this process? the Export to Quicktime Movie command does not give options regarding the audio file and I was under the assumption that using the Quicktime Conversion command might degrade the video quality a little.
The network we are doing this for sends the dvd to be closed captioned and put onto a Beta tape and I just want to make sure we are compatible and that there is no audio degradation.
Thanks so much.

When you export from FCE to QuickTime Movie, the audio and video are both contained in the QuickTime file as parallel tracks. There is no separate file or extension for the audio. As far as I know, the audio is linear PCM, 48KHz stereo.
On DVD there is also no separate file or extension for the audio. When iDVD encodes the audio & video for burning, the embedded audio is also linear PCM stereo.
If you need to provide a DVD to your client, the DVD contains all the client needs and you don't need to worry about the encoding. If you were doing Dolby AC-3 or DTS it would be a different story, but iDVD only supports 2-channel stereo.

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