Final cut introduction

We recorded a a blue screen shot, which we rolled play in of seeing the white house being blown up. This was then recorded and we were then going to put it into final cut to edit it and add in the blue screen shot but we experienced difficulty with the footage. The problem was that the file we were trying import is not supported by Final cut so this took 15 minutes or more to sort this problem out. We will be now converting the final type to a compatible format of final cut, this preferably will be FCE as i have seen on the forms because other people are having a similar problems.

Link to form - http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/99712-final-cut-express-wont-open-an-mpeg-file/

This Problem will hopefully be sorted soon so we can be back to work so we can get back to editing so we can learn how to use software correctly and properly in future works, this problem will hopefully not occur again because we know what format the file must be now.