Import 1920x1080 from panasonic sd5

Importing 1440x1080i avchd footage from Panasonic SD5 is fine.
BUT iMovie08 change my 1920x1080i footage's height aspect ratio when it's being imported.
My wife is now looking like a FATTY woman in my iMove08 project 8>
Anyone can help me?

I went out and bought the SD5 last night. I have only had a few minutes to do some tests. I took some footage in the full 1920x1080 and some in the 1440x1080. I have not tried connecting the camera to my Mac Book Pro, but did connect the USB card reader that came with the 4GB SDHC card. When I ran iMovie 08 it recognized that card as a camera and went to the import screen. I was able to import my photos. So I guess the short answer is that the SD5 will work with the new iMovie. When it imports the clips they are much larger than the AVCHD versions. It imports them as AIC format.
Now as was mentioned in this thread there is some caveats when importing. For all the full 1920x1080 clips it imported them as 2560x1980 an the 1440x1080 clips were imported as 1920x1080. This was a little annoying, but when I shared using export to Quicktime I made sure I just changed the size to 1920x1080 for the ones that were 2560x1080. The exported movie looked fine again.
I do like the higher res and random access capability of the AVCHD camera vs a tape one. But I have to get use to that importing the clips takes longer than the clips. Whereas with tape the import is 1:1 with the length of the clips. So I guess it is a trade off of convenience of picking the clips you want vs a faster import on tape.
Also you better have a lot of HD space. These clips get very large when they are imported. A 20 sec clip was approx 200MB when imported. I will have to play with this to see if there is anything I can do with it.
I do like that the card was recognized as the camera in my card reader so i do not have to connect the camera every time. I will have to try connecting the camera though to see if that does work. My next test is to see if I can copy the AVCHD files to a DVD and use that as an archiving step for my clips. I hope the DVD will then be recognized as the camera and I can import from the DVD since that is cheaper to backup the clips than having many SDHC cards.
I hope that apple puts out an update that will fix the 2560 problem. I assume they will at some point. It is annoying to have that.
Sorry for the rambling but I thought this info may be useful. I will try to post more info.

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