Quick Time Pro compression?

I just upgraded to QT Pro, and I am wondering about the creation of Image Sequences and compression. i am stop motion animator, so i have captured a bunch of still frames of my scene, and then used Image Sequencer to create an animated clip. then i can take that into iMovie or FC and cut it into my project.

BUT- by creating the image sequence, is QT compressing or otherwise degrading the image quality of my stills? i want to maintain the same quality of the original stills all the way through to outputting on to mini dv. doe i need to set a compression format before creating the sequence? a fairly thorough search using QT Help and Apple.com didn't shed light...

thanks!

 

so i guess if my original image is of the same quality as minidv i am ok.

i don't suppose you know the resolution of minidv in terms of pixels? (640X480, 720X586, that sort of thing)...i'm looking at buying a still camera that is a 4.2 Megapixel unit to take my original stills, when i will then animate via Quick Time Pro, then bring into iMovie.

if minidv is a lot less than 4.2Megapixels, I might be losing a lot of detail in my clips as I bring them into iMovie....