Video from built-in ISight camera to FC???

Greetings.
Has anyone ever recorded a video from a 24" LED Apple display using the built-in ISight video camera and then import that into FC?
What I did seems to work, but the sequence has to be rendered.
Here's what I did. Record video from Isight. The QT properties of this video are h.264, 640x480 14.15 FPS (Never saw this before).
Converted that file in compressor to Pro Res 422. The next steps are the ones I'm unsure of, which is the sequence settings. In sequence settings I set the frame size to 640x480, Pixel Aspect to NTSC, field Dom to upper.
The weird part is the frame rate of the original, 14.15.
Either way, what would be the best way to import/convert isight video to something usable in a preferably Pro Res timeline.
Thanks.
JL

Hi Tom,
Thanks for that. I think I must have done HD because the original video file was 4.5MB. After converting to Pro Res 422, that file was over 200MB!
I didn't know there were SD (DV?) Pro Res presets.
So after I do this, will this just drop nicely into an HDV timeline and I won't get a red render bar? I realize the frame size is different.
Thanks.

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