Sequence Settings, HD Export problems.

1. I'm importing a perfectly good quality Quicktime Movie segment of about
150 MB
1344x840
H.264 codec
Duration 00'55
...in which it's perfectly easy to read small print in the movie. The source audio/video comes from the game World of Warcraft, and has to be processed in Quicktime Player Pro first in order for FCE to recognize and be able to import the file.
2. I'm being forced to render a lot to see the effect of any of my editing, this may be due to the input does not match anything in the Sequence Settings - which I have mostly only tried
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i50
HDV Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60
...I have no idea which ones I should be using, or if I should be using one of the confusing numbers of DV-PAL or DV-NTSC sequence settings. Since the video is closest to the 1280x720 of the 720p30 I've been using that.
3. End problem is that no matter what I do to the export settings, - I've spent about ten hours now trying different export formats - I always seem to lose a lot of quality in the process. The small text is not readable. The quality loss is simply too much for me to want to present the final product to anyone.
I'm currently trying to fiddle with export settings in QTP in order to hopefully evade having to do so much rendering in FCE, but so far no success. Any help would be much appreciated, as this has bothered me for a long time now, and may be enough cause for me to give up on FCE altogether.

Try this free third party app:
http://www.squared5.com/
You have to decide which format you want to work with in FCE and use that Easy Setup. Read the details when you are at the Easy Setup window, each are different to suit incoming audio and video.
Then use Streamclip to convert your original footage to conform to your chosen Easy Setup, audio rate and video size.
Al

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