GoPro Camera (file type question)

Hi all,
I'm having difficulty editing the clips after importing them from the GoPro camera. The GoPro camera records in 1080p, and the clips are .mp4 files -- encoded in h.264.
When attempting to play back the footage in a Timeline Sequence, there is no preset for h.264- which, if I understand correctly, is more of a compression format rather than an editing format. I see the h.264 as a Quicktime Export option, but that's not related to the Timeline, right?
So, is it necessary to convert these clips (using Compression?) and if so, to what? Thanks!

Here's a fairly good tutorial on how to to convert gopro hd footage for use in final cut pro using mpeg streamclip.

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So, I film and edit weddings as part of a small company. I've recently had my camera and editing system upgraded to a Sony NXcam and Premiere Pro CS5 and I'm having a little trouble getting used to the new file types and settings (previously used miniDV tapes in SD with a Canon XL2 in an older version of Premiere).
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I think we may have a slight miscommunication. This is the way that I interpreted your original post.
Lets say you shot the Smith/Jones wedding this past weekend. You start a new project and have a Service Sequence and a Reception Sequence. You finish editing both the service and reception and just a standard full length video. Now you want to create a montage with clips from both the service and reception. In this montage you will have different effects like Black and white, Slo Mo, blurs, etc. So what you do is export the service and reception and then import those two files (or one long one) and then cut that apart and add your music and effects to make your montage. Is that correct?
The way that I do it works the exact same way except that you skip the export part.
When I edit a wedding I generally have 4 sequences when I am finished. I have a Pre Wedding montage, service, reception, and ending highlights. The Pre Wedding montage is just made up of shots from before the service (bride and bridesmaids getting ready, shots of the venu, groom and groomsmen and so on). Then I have a full edit of the service and a full edit of the reception. After I am finished with those 3 sequences I start working on the ending highlight collage. I make a new sequence for the collage then I go to my bin and drag the "Service Sequence" up into the preview monitor (I know in my previous post I said double click. That does not work, because that just opens it up as a sequence. Sorry about that). In the preview monitor I scrub through the footage until I find a section that I want in the montage. Then I set in and out points around that clip and drop it into my Montage timline, and what ever effects to it that I want, then move on to the next clip and do the same thing. To me it seems that we have the same process except that you have to wait for the export (which is always going to give you a quality loss, how much of a loss depends on format and settings).
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