Unrendered and Easy Setup

I have a new Sony SR11 and I'm experimenting with a FCE workflow. I've recorded a few minutes of video at the camcorder's highest setting, but am having problems getting it to play in the viewer in FCE - the audio plays, but the video shows "unrendered". I've read through the forums but haven't found an answer that helps me yet.
Source video:
Recorded at 16 Mb/s with a frame size of 1920x1080.
Easy Setup:
HDV AIC 1080i/60
When I create a sequence even after setting the above Easy Setup value, the sequence has a frame size of 1400x1080. If I read other posts correctly, the reason that FCE needs to render my clips before playing them in the viewer is that the frame sizes don't match. 1400x1080 != 1920x1080.
Assuming that's really the problem, how do I change the sequence frame size to 1920x1080? Or does FCE/AIC not support 1920x1080?

Found answers to my own questions. Posting here for others in case they have the same issues:
Alright...here's the fix. It's a PITA but it works:
You need to download this free converter: MPEG Streamclip
File -> Export to QuickTime
Compression: Apple Intermediate Codec
Quality: 100%
Sound: Stereo/48 kHz
Import the converted file into FCE and everything will work smoothly. Here's the rub:
1. Extra step
2. Extra, larger files. A h.264 original out of the camera that was 69mb turned into a 216mb file after conversion.
Kinda defeats one of my primary purposes for moving to FCE instead of iMovie (save disk space by using referenced files instead of imported ones)

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