Video for massive, giant screen

I am a wedding photographer who is using iMovie HD to produce a short video to be shown on a massive advertising screen. I will be combining still images with video.
I think the screen is like the ones in these videos:
http://www.revver.com/video/339032/large-digital-advertisment-on-a-boat-in-shang hai-harbor/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbnA27U1rc
Does anyone have any advice or knowledge about how to produce something that will look good on this type of screen?

It would be nice to try some options in advance to see for yourself. You've got 3 significant variables:
- quality of the image to be projected.
- performance of the projector.
- reflectivity of the screen and amount of ambient light.
In theory, you'd think that running the full-quality Quicktime file from a computer would be best in terms of image quality, but my computers never seemed to have the horsepower to do that cleanly. So I typically compress the movie to mpeg-2 (DVD) and show it from a DVD player. Once I tried exporting back to miniDV tape, and ran the show from my camcorder's output, and it worked fine -- in theory, this should have been a higher quality image than DVD, but I didn't do a direct comparison with DVD.
So that's a start. Did I mention using a professional quality projector and screen?
John

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