Canon 7d, Mpeg streamclip A.I.C, FCE 3.5.1

Hi
When putting AIC transcoded footage (via Mpeg streamclip) into FCE 3.5.1 timeline, I still suffer from render issues.
Is it because - easy setup in FCE 3.5.1 doesn't give me options to match the footage therefore I have to upgrade to FCE 4, or is it something else?
Any ideas?

As I said, you are in London, UK. PAL is the video standard in the UK.
You should be shooting in PAL or 'PAL-like' modes (in your case 1080i @ 25fps) unless you have specific requirements to shoot in NTSC mode, such as delivery of the video to someone in an NTSC country.
+" ... but I can now edit on the timeline using the setting as mentioned before ..."+
The earlier problem was the mismatch between your source video and your FCE easy setup. Once you aligned them (29.97 fps) of course it worked. So will shooting 1080i/25fps coupled with an FCE 1080i50 easy setup (25fps is the frame rate, 50 is the field rate, there are 2 fields per frame).

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