Importing from LiveType results in Unknown File error

Title says it all; I've tried re-installing from the original disc, and made sure that LiveType was selected to be installed. Any ideas?

I dragged in the MP4 files, and clicked Sequence > Render Selection> Both.
I think this is more of an installation error, like some package didn't get installed. When it was first installed, it kept on crashing because the ProFX framework wasn't installed. I had to dig inside the installer packages, found the package that installed ProFX, opened it up, manually extracted the files from the .tar.gz archive, and put them in place. Then it worked. I think this issue is of a similar nature.

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Ok, it appears that you are on something there buddy, when I check the info in QTP, it says that the FPS is 25.26, meanwhile it should be on 29.976
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How do I import from Itunes in a normal AAC file? (ideally in 320kbps) but most important, not a protected file!
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Hi,
How do I import from Itunes in a normal AAC file?
Go to iTunes Preferences, and choose- Advanced/Importing and under "Import Using" choose AAC, under "Setting" choose 320kbps. Copy protection is only added to songs downloaded from the iTunes Store, and not songs you import from cd's.
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I made a movie in LiveType. When I imported it into FCE, and also moved it into my timeline, it was "not wide enough." That is, there were black bars on each side of the clip in the Canvas of FCE. I looked around on this forum and decided I needed to go into LiveType and make the project properties match the properties of my FCE project.
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Before I trash preferences, I have two dumb questions for you:
(1)The project I am working on with this LiveType problem is not that important. However, I do have 35 minutes cut on a 1 hour documentary (completely different project, obviously) that I have sunk my life into. I just don't want to take a chance at messing up what I have done on the documentary for this smaller project. Dumb question on my part probably, but I'm not familiar with trashing prefs. (I think the word "trashing" makes me nervous)
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I am returning from my first vacation with my iPad, my camera connection kit and my Nikon D90.
After each day, I imported (can we say uploaded?) my pics onto the iPad. This was fun to view with my familly.
Now back at home, I can not cleanly import my 1,200 or so pics from vacation.
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