.mov to high quality .avi

We need to convert a bunch of movies from .mov format to .avi (our organization is requiring all PowerPoint talks to be in Windows OS, not Mac- don't get me started...).
Can anyone provide specific setting to use when doing this conversion in QT Pro? With the settings that I am choosing now, the quality of the .avi movies are significantly worse than those of the original .mov movies. Size is not an issue- we can make the movies as big as we need, we just need to preserve the quality.
Thank you!

For people like me who are not too sophisticated regarding the ins and outs of digital video processing, here's a very useful answer posted on the MacFixIt Forums. I tried this program and it was incredibly easy to use and produced high quality .WMV files that play nicely with PowerPoint in a Windows OS world. Hope this helps.
... I suggest you don't bother with QT conversions. Instead
fork over the $23 for VisualHub:
http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
It's free to try.
Al Bloom MDD G4 867DP, OSX 10.4.11, OS9.2.2

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9 hours??!
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
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