Final Cut, Audacity & Noise Removal

I'm working on a project in FCE. I've discovered that several of my clips have audio that was recorded directly off mics built into a miniDV camera. Because of this, the audio is lower than some of my other clips recoreded with external mics and the noise from the tape mechanism was also picked up. I would like to use Audacity's Noise Removal effect to get rid of this noise. I've set Audacity as the External Audio Editor in the System Settings. When I right-click on the audio clip I want to work on and click on Open in Editor, Audacity comes up and a window opens with the message: Importing MP3 File... This process either hangs or a file is imported with a totally incorrect format that plays nonsense. Has anyone else tried to use Audacity in this way? Is there something else I need to setup to get these two programs to play nice together. I've exported the audio manually to an AIFF file, processed it with Audacxity and it cleans out the noise quite nicely.
Doug

You already dsiscovered the answer yourself ... export as AIFF, edit in Audacity, import back into FCE.

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