QT self contained or QT conversion H264

Hi everybody,
I wish to import into "project A" several subclips that I have edited in "project B".
The editing in project B is quite tricky and the "copy paste" action from B to A led to some sync problems, because it was hard to put back pieces together"
In order to ease the transfert, I thought that I could export the set of subclips from project B as a whole (self contained movie for example) and then insert the resulting file in project A.
What is the best way to proceed to avoid loss of quality?
Should I use in the menu "export as quick time movie (self contained)"
or " using the QTconversion with H264 compression" ?
Thanks in advance for advise
Bernard

I wish to import into "project A" several subclips that I have edited in "project B".
I do this often.
In order to ease the transfert, I thought that I could export the set of subclips from project B as a whole (self contained movie for example) and then insert the resulting file in project A. < </div>
Copy and paste is my route, dunno why it won't work for you. Should work fine.
What is the best way to proceed to avoid loss of quality?
Should I use in the menu "export as quick time movie (self contained)"
or " using the QTconversion with H264 compression" ?<
H264 is never appropriate for production. Why not use a reference movie? If you're using DV, your copy will not be recompressed, it will be a digital close. Umm, that's the theory, as long as therea re no effects or transitions. Those do indeed add compression as a result of the processing/rendering.
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