Using FCE to create a showreel

I'm very new to all this..
I have used i movie in the past to create a showreel.
I now am using FCE 4 and would like to import my old showreel to use as a base to create a new one.
What is the best way to import it so it will be the best quality?
Also I am using mpeg streamclip to convert and import footage of mine that I have on dvd. What setting is best for compression and for frame rate. The footage was shot originally in HD but it isn't a HD DVD.
It will eventually end up on a website, but I would like to create the best quality DVD as well.
Many thanks

I am using mpeg streamclip to convert and import footage of mine that I have on dvd. What setting is best for compression and for frame rate
Since the DVD footage is standard definition, in MPEG Streamclip, export to QuickTime, then choose the Apple DV/DVCPro compressor. Set the frame rate and other parameters so the resulting file will match your FCE Sequence settings.
-DH

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You wrote, "If the project does not import, you'll need to crack open the iMovie project, extract the clips from inside the project folder or package, and import them into FCE."
This may be a basic operation, but as I don't yet have any working knowledge of FCE, how do you import these clips once you've found them in the package? And if you do that, is a copy made of those clips, or does FCE just remember where they are? If copies are made, are they still in DV Stream format or DV-NTSC/QT?
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while I fully agree with Al answer, let me add one note in favor of iMovie in answering your original specific question (note: I'm a quite happy user of FCE for all its advantages over iMovie, but for the point I'm going to make).
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