Simply burning iMovie to DVD

I've created a short (1.5 min) movie in iMovie. I want to burn it exactly as it is to DVD, no menu, chapters, themes. And it needs to be the highest quality.
I thought of using iDVD's One Step DVD from Movie, but when I export the movie from iMovie using "Full Quality", it doesn't look full quality upon playback in QT. Text in the title and movement in the clips aren't as clear as when I view the movie full screen in iMovie, with jaggy lines obvious in movement.
Since the movie is so brief, I'm not worried about compressing for size. I need to project this in church tomorrow. Help would be appreciated.

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