How to improve quality of stills exported from FCE?

Hello,
I am in the habit of exporting a still from video to use on the opening screen of iDVD and the DVD label. I've noticed that the quality of the stills I'm exportng from FCE is much worse that the quality I get from iMovie from the same piece of video. I am wondering if I have the playback settings in FCE at less than optimal and so the stills are not as good?
To export I use Quicktime Conversion and export as a jpeg at 29.97 fps.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Rita
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the reply. This is what I am doing and selecting "highest quality". It seems the playback in FCE isn't as good as in iMovie and so the frame I am selecting isn't as good either. Do I possibly have some setting that is making the playback of lesser quality? The video is fine when I export it and burn it to disk.
Rita

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