IMovie HD and FCE 4: video quality difference?

Hello,
I imported 20+ hours of video and organized it in FCE4. However, as a novice amateur video artist, I find it far easier to work in the older iMovie HD than FCE4. Do you lose video quality in any way by working in this simpler application?
iMovie HD allows you to save files at "full quality" as a .dv file, but this is still compressed, right?
If I should just suck it up and learn Final Cut in order to not lose video quality, please let me know. Thanks...

The quality for the most part will be the same. Do not try to mix the two applications. They work in different formats. Either work in iMovie or learn FCE, which, if you know how to use it is, is much faster. The more complex the program becomes the faster it will be in comparison to iMovie.

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