Special FX composite won't render

Bought a book called "50 Fast Final Cut Pro 3 Techniques" that included a CD-R with clips you could use for special effects.
One of them is a foreground flame clip and its accompanying mask. Near as I can figure, these clips are QuickTime 720x480 .mov at 29.97 fps.
I follow the instructions in the book. Put the mask clip in V2, put the foreground FX (flame) in V3. With V3 selected, choose Modify -> composite Mode -> Travel Matte -> Luma.
Next, I select V3 and V2, choose Sequence -> Nest Items and name the nested clip.
Next I'm told to Render All, but when I try to do that I get a prompt window that says "codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card."
Weird thing is, I don't have a video card. Just the stock card that came with the G4 that I use the firewire port.
Last weird thing, the FX clips work in the chapter exercise at 340x240, but not when I use them in my own footage at 720x480.
Any ideas? Many thanks.
Joe

any photos in your sequence?
#14 Codec not Found
Shane's Stock Answer #14:
If you get a CODEC NOT FOUND missing hardware check ALL your images in Photoshop and make sure there are in a RGB color space NOT CYMK, LAB, OR GREYSCALE
For all the stock answers, click on this link:
Shane Ross, "Stock Answers", 03:58pm Jan 13, 2005

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