Submitting to film festivals, need BEST quality! iDVD the answer?

I'm submitting my short film to festivals and need to burn DVDs of it to send!
My short is in a .mov format (compressed at 1.63 GB). I burned a copy of it with iDVD and the quality was much worse than the compressed file's quality. Is there a better way to do it, or different application that would be a better choice?
Thanks so much for your help! I'm anxious to send my entries off as soon as possible.
Sasha

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