Best way to get rendered footage from 3D app into FCE

I want to render footage from my 3D app (Cinema 4D,usually in TIFF sequences, rather than QT movies) and bring it into FCE for editing, color correcting, and possible compositing.
What format will FCE accept? I tried this scenario with iMovie and no matter what settings I used in rendering from the 3D app, the image was blurry in iMovie.
Looks fine in Quicktime, though.
I don't own FCE, yet, so I can't experiment.
Thanks.

Hi(Bonjour)!
DV and HDV (Apple intermediate codec) are compressed formats.
You must understand that FCE HD can only works in format aimed to TV set output (compressed formats).
The best quality to outfput animation movie from 3D app is... Quicktime animation codec. It retains alpha channel and give best color rendering, but give pretty large files.
Altough your animation movie looks sharp, FCE HD convert it (render) to fit the sequence format (DV or HDV: suited for TV set monitor, thus compressed). So the result will be a compressed one. That's the way FCE HD handle all material inserted in sequence.
To avoid rendering in FCE, select the same format as your FCE sequence from your 3D app (DVCPro NTSC, or Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60). By choosing the same format (DV or HDV (AIC), you choose the same compression quality however.
Final Cut Pro can handle a myriad of formats from heavely compressed mpeg to uncompressed HD. So if you put a uncompressed animation codec into a sequence with same settings, the output will be uncompressed.
If your aimed distribution format is DVD, the result will be compressed anyway to standard def format. Go with FCE HD confidently.
If you want to distribute on computer screen, DV is not a good way to go, but HDV(AIC) can give good results with Quicktime convertion to H.264 codec in full or half frame size. FCE HD can do the job.
Although DV is not best viewable on computer screen, you can produce quicktime H.264 with small frame size, say half or quarter size.
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