Capturing video from system hard disk

Hello
I am completely new to FCE. I did buy Tom Wolsky's book and worked through the tutorials with levels of success. I've decided to try a project of my own.
I videoed my son's lacrosse game recently and now I want to make a short video to present to the team. The camera I used was a Sony HCR1 HD. I did not intend to video in the high def mode, but I did.
I captured the video in imovie and subsequently used the share option to send the video to my desktop. I then used Mpeg streamclip to convert the format back to 4:3 which is the format I want to use.
Now that the video resides on the desktop in the format I want to use, can I capture it/import it into FCE to start my project, or should I play it back to the video camera and then play it back to use capture now in FCE?
If anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate your input. I know I could edit the video in iMovie, but I really want to tackle this FCE learning curve and get on with using it.
Regards
Carl

Hi Studio X and David
Thank you for your reply. I'll bring you up to date on my FCE learning curve. First, Studio X I want to use the 4:3 format because the video will be given to each team member, and I know most of them will have a regular TV to view it on. Also I don't like the look of the black bars at top and bottom.
David, I tried to import the video file into FCE. It did import but the audio tracks simply made a beeping sound. A red bar at the top of the tracks indicate that the audio needed to be rendered. I tried that. It took about 32 minutes to render 58 minutes of video with audio. But alas, FCE crashed. I reopened it and the audio did not render. So, I went back to iMovie and transfered the file to it. I hooked up my video camera and dubbed the video back to tape ( share function ). Once the video was on tape, I opened FCE and used the capture now function. Finally, that worked. No crashes, no beeps, just video and audio as it should be.
Now, I'm going to try to do some editing -- of course I've got Tom's book handy by my side to refer to. I'll keep you posted. If you have further comments, I'd appreciate the imput.
Regards
Carl

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