Final Cut, importing QuickTime movie

I have a Quicktime movie that was shot on a Sony Cybershot digital camera. I want to import it into my FCP project. It plays as a QTM on the desktop and it plays from the project folder, but when I import to the project, I lose the audio. Video is fine.
Thanks for any help!

The audio is probably not in the correct format for FCP.
Use QuickTime Pro to export "Sound to AIFF" @ 48.000kHz.
Import this file seperately into FCP, or remove the existing audio from the movie in QuickTime Pro then use the "Add to Movie" function to put the AIFF version in its place.

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