Is there a difference in quality between exporting to .dv in iMovie09 & FCP

I recently purchased FCP to do batch exporting of full quality .dv files because '09 didn't seem to have that option. I've been messing around with it now, though, and it appears as though both are capable of doing this. I've searched for this information and found conflicting results-- is exporting to .dv in iMovie destructive or is there no difference between '09 and FCP?

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If you export to .dv with either FCP or iMovie I'm quite certain that you will be re-compressing your video. That's just the nature of the interleaved file structure of .dv
I you import .dv into FCP you will have to render the audio ONE time. Not the video.
If you export .mov files using the current settings (which should be DV NTSC) you will NOT be re-compressing the video. but you will have a .mov file.
FCP is NOT the right application for archival or any sort of file management tasks. File management is one of FCPs weakest attributes.
You may want to have a look at CatDV
good luck
g

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