What will give me highest quality .MOV?

Drat, it's been quite a while since I looked at the output menu for Final Cut.

I think, as best I can remember, when you choose to export your movie and you have the Save box up (where you can choose a location and give the output a name), is where you tell it to use uncompressed.

As shown, Make Movie Self-Contained should be checked. But I believe the Setting menu here is where you choose Uncompressed. It's moved around some. Especially between Final Cut Pro and Final Cut X.

I haven't used Final Cut for a number of years now (switched the the Adobe video suite), and I can't quite remember where the choice is.

Uncompressed video would be best. It will also be huge, but that would be the best.

All DVD video is written as MPEG-2. It's the only video format used on movie DVD discs, and is the only one expected to be found on a movie disc by set-top players.

If you send them a compressed format of any kind, it will get compressed again (making the quality even worse) when they build the DVD from your supplied video.

The main option you have to control video quality for a DVD is what bitrate you create the MPEG-2 video as. Higher is better. Too high means older players won't be able to decode it fast enough to play back smoothly.

Tell the vendor you would like the best quality possible on your final DVD. They'll know what bitrate and other settings to use.

MPEG-4 is a compressed format. Even at highest quality, there will be noticable detail loss compared to uncompressed. Then they'll re-encode it as MPEG-2 for the DVD, doubling up the detail loss by recompressing a compressed video.

Where it says Compression Type on the top pull-down menu, there should be (as I recall) a choice for Uncompressed.

It might be best to ask DiscMakers.com

As they will be doing the DVD duplication ,they will know what works best.