Unable to import Quicktime movies to FCE

Hi Everyone,
No matter which codec I convert it to, FCE keeps on rejecting my QT files.
I started with a screen-cast QT file, that got rejected with: "file error: unknown file". This is a 1280x800 movie with H.264 codec that plays fine in QT 7 en X.
Then I tried to convert it to uncompressed video, DV-PAL, DVCPRO-PAL. All played fine in QT 7 en QTX, but got rejected in FCE.
AVI files are allowed though, which is strange of course. DV files too, but that format is not right for a screen-cast.
Does anyone have a clue hoe to solve this issue? Thanks!

Thanks Martin,
It seems to be a combination of glitces from both QT and FCE. First I tried all codecs, and everytime replaced the same export file and re-imported it. I got it working with the intermediate codec indeed but ONLY when setting the frame rate manually. From that moment all codecs and settings worked when deleting and re-importing, because FCE did not see the difference between the files, unless I renamed them. Renaming forced FCE to look at the files again. The only thing now is that FCE needs to render the Intermediate Codec files. DV is just not good enough for this.

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