Keeping High quality photo resolution?

I made a movie in iMovie of all still photos and music.  I have always just exported the movie to media browser but I now have imovie 11 and looked at a tutorial telling me to send it directly to idvd.  My photos are really high quality (large files)  - is that the best way to keep the quality of the photos or should I export to quicktime and customize the settings for an HD movie?  Sorry- I don't understand compression  and such, but I would love to keep the quality as high as possible.
THANKS

Hi
There are several levels on this Q:
• DVD is as standard (whatever program used to author it) - interlaced SD-Video (at its best)
(HD-DVDs was a very short lived format and needed dedicated HD-DVD players from Toshiba to be played (at all))
• iMovie'08 to 11 - has no way to Export this known to me - discard every second line in the Picture resulting in even more loss
(I rather use iMovie HD6 or FinalCut - as they can deliver)
• Sharing to iDVD (as described in tutorials) has always resulted in degraded quality toi me - Whatever iMovie version used - especially if no Ken Burns effect is used (I never use this)
So I do
• in iMovie'08 to 11: Share to Media Browser and as Large (NOT HD or other resolutions as this too degrades quality)
_iMovie HD6 - just close it - open iDVD and drop Movier project icon (with a Star on it) into it. So much better result
_FinalCut Express or Pro - Export as QuickTime mov - NO QuickTime conversion ! ! - Use this .mov file in iDVD
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