Importing QT clips to make instructional video

I would like to create an instructional video that uses pieces of Keynote presentations (which have been exported to QT) and video screen captures taken with SnapzPro, which are also .mov. In the past, I have just used Keynote to export to QT Pro and then made a few adjustments in QTPro, but I would like to be able to fine tune it more and assemble something that looks more professional, with music and effects, etc. (like the Apple tutorials).
I am very new to FCE and a bit overwhelmed with it all. The problem I am having is that when I import these clips into FCE, they need to be rendered and following that, the picture just becomes blurry. Is my problem related to my not matching up settings, or is what I’m trying to do something that can only be done in FCPro? I have not found a way to enter in specific frame rates in FCE so that they match my clips – just small, medium, large?
Has anybody else tried something like this? I’m not working with any video captured from a camera or tape, just QT .mov files. I just want to know if the problem is that I just don’t know enough yet, or if it’s that FCE can’t do this.
Any help appreciated.

within iMovie, what's the easiest way of saving them all separately outside of the project so that I can batch convert them all with Streamclip
No need to save them outside iMovie.
Just quit iMovie. Then with MPEG Streamclip drill into the iMovie project (select All files in the open file dialog) and choose /Cache/Timeline Movie.mov as an input. (That feature was suggested by an iMovie user (cough, cough)).

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