After Effects and AME CC'14. Wrong FPS interpretation.

I have footage from Sony AVCHD camcorder.
It was ingested in FCPX (simple wrapped to MOV container).
ALL video software on my Mac see it as 25 fps (50i). Except AE and AME CC'14.
Even CS 6 see 25 fps!
QuickTime Inspector
VLC Inspector
ffmpeg
AE CS6
AE CC'14
How to deal with it?

Sound in AE is good - it's not 50% slow as video (today I test this footage in Premiere - same issue).
So if I Interpret footage as 25 fps - sound will speedup 2x.
I can make pre-comps and other magic, but i will get something like this:
50% of my video! So Interpret footage - not an option!
And my project contents over 200 clips! So pre-comps (even with 50% of source video) - will be pain in ...!
I had to transcode all my footage to ProRes.. not using AME, because of same issue..

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