Exporting 1080 (50p) to Final Cut Express

After an eternity of video editing on PC/Pinnacle Studio, last year I saw the light and switched to Mac/iMovie 09. I now want to make the next step up to HD/FCE and have homed in on a Panasonic HDC-TM700 camcorder which has had fantastic reviews, however, several reviewers have highlighted the inability to export 1080(50p) to edit in FCE. Given that 1080 (50p) would seem to be the "future", is there any way that I can overcome this problem without going to Final Cut Pro?
Thanks,
P.S. For someone who started out 50 years ago, splicing together strips of 8mm cine film, the "problem" is relative!

I'm pretty sure that the next editable quality down will also look very impressive on your HDTV.
When you have edited your AVCHD video, the cheapest/best way to view it is via this tiny £70 gizmo
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-1080P-Media-Player/dp/B002VAVR4A/ref=sr13/278-5070070-3047239?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1279890483&sr=8-3
All you do is export your edited video to H.264, put it on any USB 2.0 Hard Drive (or memory stick), plug the HD into the gizmo and the gizmo into your TV and you can sit back and watch your own hi-def edited videos.
A £70 1 Terabyte USB 2.0 HD will hold over 200 hours of HD movies.
The HD and gizmo are so compact, they are easy to take to friends' houses and plug into their HDTVs.

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Jason Castellani wrote:
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450sec of 720/30fps material will create STILL huge files .. the point for setting the 'quality' is the socalled bitrate; e.g. famous tool VisualHub (not avail anymore) allowed a manual setting, to find a mix of size vs. pic quality. .. check your converter tool, where and how to set the bitrate. but: the better, the bigger ..
I dare to say, even the mentioned elaborated tools don't do wonders.
consider downsampling the framerate by half to 15 (in the 'Size' dialog on Export from within FCE).
consider an even smaller res 960x540 ..
don't forget to de-interlace for web-deilivery (reduces file size a lil'..)
downsize audio sampling rate to 22kHz.. mono .. saves a few MB ..

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