URGENT ADVICE NEEDED!- outputting for iTunes

I have edited some promo videos for a small record company. They have asked me to supply them edited masters at highest quality to submit to iTunes for sale. They were shot in HDV. What should I give them? Full quality quick time movies? Compress for iPod within FCP? Welcome your advice!
Thanks

I think you best give them both. The smallest file size to post on the i-tunes store and the high quality uncompressed to provide to a client via ftp-server. Thats the way i do it.

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It appears that you need to step back and rethink your business. Heck, we don’t even know that you have a business. What you’re up to might just be personal editing. So I apologize if what I’m about to say overestimates you or underestimates you.
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