Update/Migrate Settings to Compressor 4

I spoke with someone pretty knowledgable about Compressor who suggested having the old Compressor 3.5 application open and drag and drop the old settings in to Compressor 4 Settings window to exchange between the two since Compressor 4 doesn't have immediate access to your old settings. Since Compressor 4.0.2, it looks like Apple has disabled the ability for the two programs to be open at the same time and I'm working on a new machine - how can I bring my settings from Compressor 3.5 to 4? Why doesn't Compressor 4 offer to import the previous settings? Is this a legacy feature thing? Should I really start from scratch?
Thanks!

You can't export uncompressed in iMovie.  By default iMovie wants to use H.264, which is way too highly compressed to do anything with beyond showing off as is.  You'd need to use Share > Export Using QuickTime Conversion.  There, you have an Options button, where you can set it up to be a ProRes 422 QT movie.  Take that into Compressor.  Be careful of the Fram Size, as iMovie wants to only give you a tiny frame size by default, make sure it's the native frame size/rate as the original camera shot it in.  I don't know if Finalizing a project helps at all, but I assume those are just H.264 files, too.
If you want to move to this higher resolution and more complex transcode type of work, FCP X may be a consideration.  iMovie wasn't really designed to work with Compressor really.

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