Converting MPG movie to FCE

I have an MPG video clip I would like to put into FCE, than add a few still images and some music to the stills for a brief movie clip of an event we had while on vacation.
Can someone help me with the process of converting this MGP so FCE will recognize it? I have FCE, iMovie and even MPEG Streamclip, but cannot figure out the right formats so FCE will accept. After spending several hours, have decided to see if someone out here can help.
Thanks

Perhaps you didn't specify all you needed to in the Streamclip export.
If you're working in a DV-NTSC Sequence in FCE, these settings should give you a clip which will not need rendering:
Compression: Apple DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
Quality 100%
Audio: Uncompressed Stereo @48kHz
Frame Rate 29.97

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