Elgato Game Capture HD Footage takes Hours to Import

First off, I use a late 2009 21.5 inch iMac with an Intel 3.06 Ghz core 2 Duo, 12 Gigs Ram, and an Nvidia Geforce, 9400 265 mb with Mountain Lion . And all drivers up to date.
I've been having this issue for a while and with the increased work load I have been taking on, its now becoming unbearable. Every time I import Elgato Hd Footage (720p 60 FPS at high to even lowest quality) The import can take hours, Almost as long and often longer than the video even is. I thought it was a codec problem, but I have a friends footage I'm also editing that I have to convert and it gets converted to mp4 with a h264 codec as well. (Image being added below) And his imports just in a few short minutes. I have tried converting my footage as well but this does not seem to help and the only other file format I can do is MKV which adobe doesn't seem to take.
My friend footage is in the properties to the left, and Mine are on thee right. I understand there is a difference in file size and duration, but it doesn't seem like it should be making this big of a difference, where his imports in about 2 minutes when mine is in hours. This even happens if I open up the project after saving, it takes hours for it to simply load up the video. I have also tried this with videos in smaller sizes and the results seem scaled almost the same.
Please i could really use some advice on what to try out here, cause I'm out of ideas.

You're going to notice a huge difference going from what you have to 12gb, I don't know how big a difference you'll notice from 12 to 16. The reason Apple doesn't "support" 32gb in iMacs is that they write the specs at the time the machine is released taking into account the available technology at that time. Apple doesn't update it's specs for existing machines when new tecnology becomes available. If Crucial and OWC say 32 will work you'll have no trouble by using it. You won't go wrong with Crucial, I've used them foerver. Enjoy your new ram whatever you end up getting. Run Activity Monitor now and check out the page outs you're getting and run it again after you upgrade and you'll really get a visual of the difference.

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(A bit off the point, but I also note that you say that +the Lacie is where my project file, media, etc. are on"+ ... Danger, Will Robinson! Or at least, potentially so. Don't throw all your Easter Eggs in one basket. Make sure your project file is not stored in the same physical location as your Autosave Vault directory, else if the drive fails you'll have no means of recovering all your hard work.)
Next you opened that reference movie in QT Player and used it to create an H264 movie ... is that an intended target? Other than creating a SD DVD copy you don't note the intended audience / delivery for this piece. Creating an H264 version would not be a suggested part of the workflow for SD DVD delivery. You also note that you left the file size at its default, guessing that was 1280x720 ... can you double check that? As noted above already, 1280x720 denotes a HD 720 frame size, not an HD 1080 frame size. Unless you are doing this with specific intent then you'll probably want to leave it unscaled for your edit master.
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