Editing H.264 Footage from Canon SX 1 IS

Hello, I've just bought a new camera, the Canon SX 1 IS, which shoots 1920x1080p at 30fps using H.264. The clips are imported by iPhoto and play fine in iPhoto and iMovie. But when I try to edit in FCE, the timeline playback is extremely choppy. Opening a clip in the viewer is absolutely fine, the clip will play back at full frame rate and quality. But as soon as it's dropped into the timeline, it's choppy and slow. Turning off Unlimited RT does not make any difference. Is there something I'm doing wrong here? I am at a loss to understand why the clips play fine in the viewer (and I can edit normally in iMovie) but FCE spits the dummy. Any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers, David

Tom, I'm using Final Cut Express 4.0.1.
The clips from the SX 1 are:
Creator - Quick Time Player
Tracks - 1V,2A
Vid Rate - 30fps
Frame Size - 1920x1080
Compressor - H.264
Data Rate - 5.1 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect - Square
Field Dominance - Upper (0dd)
Alpha - None/Ignore
Composite - Normal
Audio - 1 Stereo
Aud Rate - 44.1KHz
Aud Format - 16-bit Integer

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