Final Cut - import question

Hi,
this may not be the right place to post this, but I do have and use FC Pro and just got a Pansonic DVC30 mini-DV camera. I shot several "still" mode pictures with the camera (which takes 7-10 seconds of tape). now I would like to import the pictures - assuming that its a high quality.
So far I can only figure out how to import them into FCP as a movie. Is there a way to do this or to use another Apple sw tool to do this? The camera does not show up under iPhoto or imageCapture.
thx
'mark

Thanks -
that's what I thought, but the camera user manual (and Panasonic IMHO has a lot to learn about writing better user manuals) - seemed to indicate that you can capture stills at a higher res. Now granted if the CCD's (3 in this case) only have enough minimum resolution for NTSC video, then there isn't much which can be done.
But if they overspec'd the CCD, resolution, then it might be better.
For some reason, the stills are recorded for something like 7 seconds on the tape. My only guess as to why they record them for this long is so that you can easily identify the different still shots vs. video.
This camera does not have a memory card or stick.
thanks
'mark

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