Using Quicktime Movies in FCE

I'm trying to edit quicktime movies I shot with my digital camera. The camera original format is AVI. I use Quicktime Pro to export Mac friendly .mov files and then import those into FCE. Of course, when I edit these clips into the timeline, they appear as unrendered.
When I go to the sequence settings, there is no Quicktime option there, so I can't match them to the original clip settings.
The only solution I know of is to put all my clips into the timeline and render them overnight. That's okay, but then if I'm editing and I delete part of a rendered clip in the sequence timeline and then want to put it back, I have to render that section of the clip all over again.
Is there an easy solution to all this in either the sequence settings or rendering process?
Thanks!
Niels

You exported the file to the wrong format. It has to be a QuickTime .mov file in either DV NTSC or DV PAL codes, or in the Apple Intermediate Codec for HD material.

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