Import From Sony - No Audio FCP & QT

Importing footage shot on a Sony DCR-SR87 (not a AVCHD file), video is fine, no audio when I import to FCP or when I try to play with QuickTime. The file play fine on a VLC player.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
SC

Steve
You need to convert the file to an acceptable edit format. The native SD format from that camera is MPEG2 which is not an edit friendly codec ... more to the point, it is not at all compatible with FCP as the audio and video data streams are mixed together (muxed) which is something that FCP will not deal with.
A quick and easy solution is to download MPEG Streamclip from http://squared5.com ... it is free and it is very good. Just load the file and choose Export to Quicktime, then choose perhaps DV50 as an intermediate edit codec to work with.
Best
Andy

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