Do you really have to render every single HDV clip?

Don't remember reading that anywhere...
Starting a new project that someone handed over to me with projects and media all ready to go.
I open up the timelines and eveery clip needs to be rendered in the timeline and the source media plays back all clunky in the viewer.
Am I doing something wrong or is this just HDV editing?
As always, thanks in advance....

This project was a freaking nightmare. I thought it would take three weeks, it took thre months.
He capture the footage wrong somehow, I ddon't know, but no matter what settings I changed I couldn't avoid the rendering.
Tp top it all off, he captured the audio directly into Pro Tools so it was 1988 all over agin, synching up the audio files with the video.
I am giving the director the final dvd next week after I finish the menu. The editing is all done THANK GOODNESS!!

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Can anyone please suggest anything that I may be missing as this is getting really frustrating!!??

Cool, as soon as I can get back in front of my Mac I'll get that posted up for you. In the mean time I just thought I would post up the process I've been following and maybe you'll spot something that I'm doing wrong.
Firstly the Camcorder I'm using films in 720p HD in mpeg4 H.264 format in widescreen/16:9. Now I read on another forum that the H.264 is no good for editing in FCE so I would need to convert to something compatible. I was pointed to a program called "Mpeg Streamclip" which is what I now use to convert to an acceptable format. If you are familair with the program the process I follow is to Open up the clip I want to convert and select the option "Export To QuickTime" It then gives me the options available for this. Firstly I choose DV-PAL from the dropdown list and then slide the quality slider up to MAX. The DV-PAL option defaults at 4:3 so in another dropdown menu I change that to 16:9 to preserve my widescreen. I then select "Make Movie" and it creates a copy in .mov format and DV-PAL. I have FCE setup to work with DV-PAL (all formats) as previously mentioned and from the instructions I've followed I should now be able to work with clips un hindered by having to re render.
Now I am doing green screen footage and using the Chroma Key filter which I understand does need to be rendered but from what I have read I should only have to render once and from then on I should be ok without having to re render.
I am very new to video editing and am a music engineer mainly but in the interest of being an independant artist I'm trying to do as much by myself as I can.
Thanks for any help you can give, it will be much appreciated.

Render every single video

Why do I need to render every single video that I imported and and filters too? Why is that so?

Have you tried the free MPEG Streamclip ?
If not, open your H264 videos in MPEG Streamclip and then Export to QuickTime (cmd-E - NOT Export to DV!) with Compression: Apple DV-PAL (or Apple DV-DVCPRO/NTSC), Quality: 100%, fps: 25 for PAL or 29,97 for NTSC, Audio: uncompressed, Stereo, 48 KHz.
When imported to FCE, the resulting .mov will have both video and audio and will not require video nor audio rendering.
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i have a simple piece of text in my browser (named the default name "text") that i use over and over in lots of sequences. i stuck a drop shadow in and now i have to render every time? is that right? i didn't have to render before; is there a way to just render the one time?
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i am a musician and im trying to use fcp to edit my videos to match my final product with my mp3 final project audio from garage band. i recorded in photobooth and recorded at the same time as garage band using my condenser mic for better audio. i changed my files to pro res 422, but every time i move any clip some portion needs to be re rendered, ive set the sequence to pro res 422 but i still cant figure out whats going on. i have a drum, piano, vocal, guitar videos that all match to the audio but i cant really do much when it takes 14 minutes to render a 3 minute clip.
this is what it looks like.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/abrownsk8er/Picture5.png
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y213/abrownsk8er/Picture3.png

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Some video capture programs produce videos that are in some way incompatible with FCP because FCP reads the fps wrong. Snapz Pro is one, there are probably others. If you actually recorded the files in 29.97, then you need to run them through compressor to make them FCP compatible. Choose a pro res preset, but make sure that in the video settings that 29.97 is selected (and not "current").
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