Moving from Linux to Final Cut Pro, Need Help Creating Same Mpeg-4 videos

I am seeking to move into Final Cut Pro to develop these types of videos that I have previously been creating in Linux.
How can Final Cut Pro make these videos in the format specified below (OR VERY CLOSE TO IT)?
Please let me know what settings with screenshots, etc. will make final cut pro output in this way.
MINIMUM output requirements Video codec: Mpeg-4 (divx) with 2400 vbitrate, Audio Codec: MP3 and File container .avi
I look forward to your help, below are the details I've used in Linux, so please help me create these videos using Final Cut Pro.
I need this information by the end of the week.
Thanks!
To Convert from a captured uncompressed video to MPEG-4 (Divx) with MP3
audio at 2400 bits using mencoder
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html
mencoder -ffourcc divx capture002.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vp ass=1
-vf harddup -noskip -mc 0 -o test.avi
-------------VIDEO ------------
Video Encoded to Codec (MPEG-4) with ffourcc divx (divx4)
Video Bitrate = 2400 (vbitrate=2400),
Allow 4 motion vectors per macroblock (slightly better quality) (v4mv)
Motion estimation=2 (mbd=2)
Trellis searched quantization. This will find the optimal encoding for
each 8x8 block. Trellis searched quantization is quite simply an optimal
quantization in the PSNR versus bitrate sense (Assuming that there would
be no rounding errors introduced by the IDCT, which is obviously not the
case.). It simply finds a block for the minimum of error and lambda*bits.
(trell)
Sets the comparison function for full pel motion estimation (cmp=3)
Sets the comparison function for sub pel motion estimation (subcmp=3)
Motion Search Algorithm (mbcmp=3)
Same as the aspect option, but automatically computes aspect, taking into
account all the adjustments (crop/expand/scale/ etc.) made in the filter
chain. Does not incur a performance penalty, so you can safely leave it
always on. (autoaspect)
Activates internal two (or more) pass mode, only specify if you wish to
use two (or more) pass encoding. (vpass=1)
duplicate frames (harddup)
no skipping (-noskip)
------------- AUDIO ------------
Audio Encoded to Codec (MPEG-3)
------------- FILE CONTAINER ------------
File Container (.avi)
DOCUMENTATION FOR MENCODER
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html#GENERAL%20ENCODING%20OPTIONS% 20(MENCODER%20ONLY)

I need this information by the end of the week.< </div>
Not likely.
Easiest solution is to produce your edited material in FCP and then move the fully rendered, self-contained movie, in whatever format you are producing, to your Linux machine and use its encoder/transcoder.
Compressor will do the job for MP3 and MP4 but you will need to purchase the DIVX codec or transport it to your Mac. You need to talk to DiVX and you need to open the manual for Compressor. Compressor is not easy to learn how to use i na day but whatever you were using on your Linux box was much more difficult to learn.
bogiesan

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