QT from isight requires rendering

I notice that when I make a QT video with the built in isight camera on the imac, and bring it into FCE, it all requires rendering. Is there a way to set FCE to avoid this?

Hi(Bonjour)!
Any material included in an FCE's timeline that not conforms to sequence settings will need rendering.
As FCE HD can does only DV and HDV and as iSight output someting like H.264 or mpeg (I do not own/use this hardware, so I dont know this info), every footage captured from iSight needs rendering.
One way to avoid this is to convert your original footage to a format natively supported by FCE (DV NTSC-PAL or Apple Intermediate codec for HDV) in quicktime player PRO.
Once converted and imported into FCE, this newly converted material will play without the need of rendering.
Michel Boissonneault

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