Rendering a QT movie import

I've got a screen capturing program that outputs QT movies, and you can use pretty much all the available codecs to output it. But when I bring it into FCE, it wants to render it (OK if you don't move or edit it, which i'm not so much as I'm just using a capture of a flash movie as a guide) - any ideas as to a better output format (using Animation now) or other suggestions ?

unfortunately when I was evaluating snapzpro I found I wasn't able to change the (video was ok) audio settings that didn't require rendering when importing into FCE. I found iShowu was a better choice as it was flexible enough to change the recording settings that didn't involve a render when importing into FCE and it recorded to right format rather post capture re-recording.
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And if DPI means, "dots per INCH", it must be tough to work in metric linear measures like centimeters, n'est-ce pas?
I then export from Photoshop at the default setting, Quicktime in .mov format.
The ".mov" file extension simply indicates that the file is a quicktime movie. Quicktime movies are simply media containers. The file can be encoded via a ny number of schemes, called Codecs. Here's a metaphor: an .mov file is a bottle. A bottle can hold many different kinds of liquids: beer, milk, water, juice, gasoline... you get the idea. Those liquids are the codecs.
The codecs of some Quicktime Movies don't work well in After Effects. Your configuration of Photoshop may default to one of the bad ones: we can't tell. But you can -- highlight the problem footage in the project window and look at the information at the very top. The identity of the codec will be revealed there.
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+Should I maintain my event library in .dv format? (and bite the bullet on the storage)+
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