Should I compress our FCP4 project or drag our QT movie to iDVD?

We're relativity new to editing and have completed a project in FCP4, which is 50 mintues in length. We rendered the project and then made a QT movie.
We believe we need to now compress the project in FCP prior to dragging it into iDVD for completion...is that correct? or should we just drag the completed, self-contained QT.mov into iDVD and be done with it?
If we don't compress in FCP, will there be a degradation of quality?
We tried using the standard compression settings in FCP; 60 min high quality for video and 44.mhz for the AIFF audio files...it ran all night and nothing happened?
Any thoughts or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Randy

You can drag that self-contained file to iDVD. That works well. You can also use reference files if you want to save disc space. There shouldn't be any difference in quality.

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