AVCHD - How to import from my camera?

I got a Sony CX-12 camcorder that records movies in full HD, an amazing image quality.
But when I import the movies from the camera the files become incredibly large...
And when I export the movie from iMovie08 the image quality is so poor...
By this way, there's no reason to expend lots of money on a High Definition camera, or to expend lots of money on a Mac...
Thanks for all
Emerson
What do I do?
Is there another video editor that works with AVCHD files?

AVCHD is a method of squeezing large files into a small space by compressing the video ..by removing many actual frames from the flow of video, and just writing "pretend" frames which describe the differences between adjoining frames.
You obviously can't edit "pretend" frames which aren't there, so the original data has to be put back into the video stream in order for you to have real video to edit ..that's why the file size appears to balloon! ..It isn't really, though, that the file sizes increase: they just come back to normal ..it's the AVCHD-compressed material which is abnormally small!
As for the image quality being "..so poor.." when exported, that's a whole other story.
I won't describe what to do to improve it, as Mr Mullen will jump down my throat and say that I've got it all wrong ..but others will soon jump in and describe how best to export it at best quality.
There are plenty of good reasons to "..expend lots of money on a High Definition camera, or to expend lots of money on a Mac.." because you can get excellent results ..and all TVs are going to become Hi-Def soon, and there'll soon be no standard-def camcorders anyway!
(..There are three simple ways to present hi-def after you've edited it: burn it to a hi-def DVD, or send it to a device like an AppleTV, or play it off a computer's hard drive to a compatible display. Apple doesn't - presently - sell Blu-Ray burning devices, and they seem to be betting on all hi-def being delivered to a TV via an internet device or something connected to your Mac such as an AppleTV. So the latest iMovie is aimed more at "internet sharing" for displaying edited movies, rather than being aimed at burning to a DVD ..things may change, but speculation's not allowed here at iMovie Discussions..)

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