Importing 1080/60p Video

I use a Sony HD Handicam and have been importing video into iPhoto without any difficulty.
Today, I captured one of my son's after school events using 60p shooting mode (previously, I think I was using 60i). Now, it seems neither iPhoto nor iMovie can recognize the video in 60p mode and import it.
Is there some kind of restriction on importing 60p video? Is there any way to import it into either my iPhoto library (preferred) or iMovie?

I used a brand new 32GB SD card and did not have to format it for my camera.  I simply bought it put it in the camera and it worked.  I recoeded about 20 min of video consisting of almost 60 clips that were 10-20 seconds each.  I also took a few still frame pics on the same card in between filming the short clips.  When I put the card in the computer only the still frames showed up.  Later that night I was experimenting and filmed some short clips in my living room in all 5 of the other formats.  When I put the card back in the computer only the other clips were able to import into FCPX and not the 1080/60/P clips that were still on the same card.
My Panasonic camera HC-V500 is not on the comatible camers list for Apple FCPX but the recording formats are.  What I don't see on the Apple list is 1080/60P.  This is getting frustrating.  Is there a third party software that can translate effectively without loosing resolution?
Thank you for your help so far!
Nick

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