HT4682 using fcp 7 with sony vg-20

I purchased a Sony camcorder VG-20 and I thought it would have give no problems at all with fcp, it looks like it doesn't work.
Does anybody know a way out? Not selling the camcorder :-)
Thx

When you connect the camera to your computer and go to Log and Transfer, what happens?
Are you shooting in 1080 60p or 1080 50p? Those AVCHD formats are not supported by Log and Transfer, you need to get Clipwrap to transcode the files first, then once transcoded, import the files into FCP to edit.
MtD

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