im not sure what to do but i want to export to the highest quality possible...do i go with uncompressed or microsoft dv, i put them side by side and i really cant tell the difference except uncompressed is an outrageously larger file, what should i do?

DV AVI uses DV compression, and therefore will introduce a small amount of artifact due to that compression. The file will be one-fifth the size of an uncompressed AVI. I use uncompressed as intermediate files during editing and then save to a compressed file for my final output, whether that be MS DV AVI, WMV, MPEG, etc.