TIFFs import - trouble real time rendering/preview

I have just imported 359 uncompressed TIFFs for a 15 sec animation I rendered from 3D Studio Max. I cannot play a preview of it in the FCP as it just comes up with 'unrendered'
I am running the latest Final Cut Studio on a 17" MBP with 4gb ram.
I am brand new to FCP and had the seller of the MBP install it for me, so may be his settings are not best for this. Any thoughts or advice would be very gratefully accepted.
Mark

Umm, tiff images are not video. they need to be rendered for playback.
Open up your shiny new manuals and read through the sections that relate to "stills cache".
A faster way to work with this is to open up QT Pro, import the images and export a Quicktime movie using the appropriate codec for use in FCP.
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