FCP X only importing portion of AVCHD file?

I recorded a 11 1/2 hour AVCHD file on my Canon M500 in XP+ mode on a 64gb SD card.  When I view the video on the camcorder itself I can see the whole 11 1/2 hours, 63.5gb of footage.
When I put the SD card in my MacBook Pro (mid-2010), 8gb ram, 512gb SSD and try to import it into FCP X, it is only picking up the first 6 1/2 hours (~ 32gb) of footage.  It just cuts off after that time.
I've tried using PavTube to convert the files but it takes an extremely long time to do the conversion so I canceled it.  The program was indicating ~ 55 hours to convert from AVCHD to Apple ProRes 422 format for all the individual files.  And each file was about 20gb in size after converting (31 files in all).
Has anyone else had issues importing big movies like this into FCP X?

I am having the same problem here.
Have you found any solution for this mistery?
- I tried to import on imovie, but its creating a huge AIC file and taking too long.
- Mpeg streamclip is not reading my individual MTS files.
- I imported the 4 hours footage that FCPX is not reading into Premiere and I'm trying to export these 4 hours clip MTS from Adobe Premiere into into Quicktime H264 format, but its estimating 23 hours of process.
Should be another way to make FCPX read the whole 10 hours clip or an easy way to export the 4 hours "missing" to quicktime.
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