Getting home videos from DVD to FCE via Handbreak

I have home videos that are on DVD, and that's the only place they reside in the world. I want to get them to FCE so I can combine some different shots. I'm using Handbreak to get the video off the DVD's, but when I did it FCE was unable to read the resulting file. Is there a certain setting in Handbrake that I should use to make this work??
Thanks

I'm so happy to be able to finally help someone because I had this same problem and have it licked now.
First, you need MPEG Streamclip. Get that here http://www.squared5.com/
Then you need the MPEG Quicktime Component, get that at http://www.apple.com/quicktime (link is on the left side of the page)
But your DVD in, open MPEG streamclip, then file > open DVD (just click on the CD in finder) and hit open and follow the instructions.
Once that's done (and the video should play in the streamclip window), export it by doing ... APPLE+E, compress to Apple DV-PAL, quality up to 100% and 25 frames per second, sound should be on uncompressed.
Once you do that, just open FCE, file > import > file (APPLE+I) and select the file that you just made in streamclip. It's that easy. I'm so happy I've found this solution. Hope you can get some use out of it.

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