Cannot ingest .MTS files from Canon Vixia HF S200

I have an iMac, OS 10.6.8, Intel Core 2 Duo processor. I'm using FCE 4.0.1 and MPEG Streamclip 1.9.2. My camera's parameters are: video compression MPEG-4 AVC/H.264; 1080/60i frame rate; FXP (17Mbps) mode.
With the camera powered and plugged in (USB), when I select File>OpenFiles in Streamclip and select all ".MTS" files in the AVCHD>BDVM>STREAM folder I get the following message: "Unrecognized file type". If I choose download anyway and choose File>Export to QT, I get the following error message: "Can't read the frame size".
If I remove the SD card from the camera and download onto my 2TB HD and move one ".MTS" file into Stream clip, I get the following message: ""WARNING "00304.MTS" contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media".
I also tried moving the entire BDVM folder (which includes a BACKUP folder [empty]; a CLIPINF folder; INDEX.BDM; MOVIEOBJ.BDM; PLAYLIST>00000.MPL; AND STREAM into Streamclip with the same results.
Simply put, I can't get Streaclip to recognize the camer's output. I can't figure out what's wrong. It would seem that what I'm trying to do should work, i.e., convert the camera output to AIC for input to FCE.
George

MtD,
It's my understanding that FCE 4.0.1 can only ingest DV or AIC using Log and Transfer. I thought that one had to use something like Streamclip when h.264 is involved by converting to AIC.
Also, among my many attempts, I'm pretty sure I tried Log and Transfer and received a similar message.
By reading other posts, I'm wondering if I'm trying this at the wrong layer, i.e., at first I accessed just the ".MTS" files, then I tried the STREAM folder. I wonder if I have to bring over the the whole BDVM folder, or possibly the whole AVCHD folder.
This is my first attempt to work with this camera. That's why I'm a bit screwed up. Previously, I used a Canon HV10 and downloaded into iMovie HD. Then, later versions of iMovie started giving me poor results so I bought FCE. At about the same time I broke my camera and bought the HF S200.
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