AVI movie import

Hi,
I have a x100 hd toshiba video camera, and would like to import their movies to aperture.
The camera creates two files (IMAG0001-thm.avi and IMAG0001.avi) one is the thumbnail movie, and other the movie itself.
When I tried to view the movies with quicktime I see the thumbnail with no problems, but the movie itself I get a black screen only with sound.
I tried VLC and can see the movie with no problems.
Anyway I tried to import the movie to aperture but I get the same problem as with the quicktime, no image, only sound.
What can I do ? do I have to convert all my movies ?!
Many thanks!

I've followed all the steps in the Help menu for importing a video, and the computer even tells me that it's "creating a thumbnail" but then I can't find it under my "Events Library".
iMovie '08 should not import anything it cannot edit. If it is being imported, I would normally assume the audio and video compression formats are editable. If it says it is thumbnailning but you don't see the files in the named_Event window, try opening the named_Events folder and check to see if the files were indeed imported or not. If they have, I would try deleting the thumbnail and cache folders in the named_Events folder, close iMovie '08, and then re-open the application to see if the application will re-thumbnail the content/display it properly properly.

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