How to convert a Final Cut Pro Movie File to uncompressed Quick Time

I have to send the highest quality file of my 20 sec sequence. It was edited from a converted file.
The settings are:
Vid Rte: 25fps, Frame Size 1024x576, Compressor DV-PAL, Pixel Aspect Square.
Audio: 48.0 KHz, 16-bit Integer
I exported the sequence: the FCP Movie File is 72.3MB. How to make a Quick Time without reducing it further through the Compressor?

See your other thread Ruth ... what you have created here is some kind of Frankenstein format that exists only in your laboratory.
By the way, an "FCP Movie" as you call it IS a QuickTime movie.

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