Final Cut Express 4 and avchd

I read an article that recommended your products so I'm hoping you can help me. I recently bought a Panasonic AC-90A HD video camera which uses AVCHD recording format. In the article it said that I should be able to upload into Final Cut Express 4 and edit. I can upload to the viewing screen, however, I can't seem to bring the clips into the bins which I need to do to edit. Would you be able to help finding the problem and clearing it so that I can edit.
Thank you,
John

This is a user to user forum. You are not addressing Apple here.
Can you describe exactly what you are doing and where the problem occurs?
Can you verify you are using FCE version 4.01?
On your camera can you verify you are not shooting in the 1080 60P mode? 1080 60P AVCHD was not a standard when Apple discontinued and abandoned FCE, so that functionality was never added.
MtD

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