Problem with Animation Codec footage

I have a 90-minute movie that was edited by a third party on a PC Avid system and exported to QuickTime using the animation codec to preserve as much quality as possible. I'm trying to bring the movie into FCP to add chapter markers and then export to Compressor and DVD Studio Pro.
The problem is that, even though I can see the movie in the preview window, when I move it to the Canvas and the Timeline, the video doesn't show up. I have audio but no video. When I move it to the Canvas it shows up in the timeline as needing to be rendered.
I did try to set up the sequence settings to match the specs for the source movie, but that doesn't seem to help. Here are the specs for the source movie --
Ave. Data Rate: 38824 k/sec.
Frame Size: 720 x 486
Color Depth: 32-bit Color
Codec: Animation at Most Quality
Frame Rate 29.97 fps
It may be choking my computer or it may be choking my video card. Those details are below. Any suggestions would be very appreciated.

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Um, no. The reason I asked was that you stated the "clip properties in the timeline are as follows" and that would, might, give us only the properties of the sequence, not the clip from the Browser.
We have some oddball issues here. The source was a PC Avid system. You didn't need to use Animation. Preserving "quality" when you're going out to DVD is wasted time and effort; keep your original Animation file but convert it to something you can use with more convenience. And, if we were looking over your shoulder this would be much easier.
Since we're drifting into two or three different topics and two or three of us are posting out of sequence and confusing each other (well, I'M confused) I'll end by suggesting you begin another thread with a single, carefully defined question.
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