What format for high quality

I have made a video in FCE which is going to be distributed and used in schools.
I have one version saved as an FLV file which I have put on a website and linked to it using Flash so the schools can view it online.
But I want a a hard copy version on CD/DVD which can be sent to the schools if needed.
Can someone advise me what settings to use to get the best quality when exporting .
Cheers

HI,
when you export as QuickTime movie you are not introducing any compression, so the output will be the same as the movie in your timeline, using the same codec.
If you want to go to DVD (making your DVD video), this is the best approach as iDVD will do the compression for you in MPEG2. Being 8 minutes, you use the "best performances" in iDVd to encode it at best quality.
If you just want to save a QuickTime file into a DVD (in this case it will not be a DVD video but a DVD rom and you can not play it on a stand alone DVD player) then you need to encode it such that people can see it on their computers.
In this case you can use the other export, export to QuickTime conversion, as QuitckTime movie, then you can choose from several codecs (H.264 gives good results). In there you can choose the quality and frame size you want.But this is not a DVD video at best quality.
So, to go to iDVD you will choose Export to QuickTime (NOT conversion), you can skip to make it self contained and take the MOV file created and bring it to iDVD. This will give you the best quality.
Regards,
Armando.

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