After dragging captured clip to timeline, I have to render

Hi,
I'm fairly new to this business and have the limited version, FCE. Lately I have been having the problem that when I capture a clip (whether it's in a new project or an old one) and drag it to the timeline, I first have to render it before I can play back. Is that normal?
Thanks

How do you adjust the settings to get them to match perfectly?
FCP comes with about 3000 pages of manuals. But that's FCP. I've never used FCE. FCE must have something that can help you so open t the online help system and look for sequence settings. Or you can just start dropping every menu along the top till you find sequence>settings.
You will need the manual to figure out how to make them match because you will need to know how to determine what video format you have imported, how you imported it, and if any changes have been made to your media files by you improperly setting the software or if you have a hardware i/o that was not set correctly. None of those questions can be answered easily without you knowing much more about your system and how FCE's workflow is designed.
bogiesan

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