Importing avchd files

I have a panasonic AG-AC130 Video Camera...shot footage AVCHD...Took card out put in card reader in USB port on keyboard of imac (newest modest)...that all worked fine, but when I try to edit, frames dropped, so it's kinda hard to work with....Talked to someone who said footage from card needs to be copied over to an external HD...copying ALL the files in same folders, etc...Did that....not sure what I did, but it worked...edited no problems....shot some more footage and went thru the same steps, or so I thought, but I can't get FCPX to recognize the footage that I copied over to ext hard drive...I KNOW i'm missing a step or 2 somewhere, and was wondering if someone would walk me thru it STEP BY STEP... for example::
put SDHD card in usb port on computer
copy files to external HD
go to FCPx
click on whatever icon...import files, import files from camera, etc
etc...this is the point where all the files i copied are grayed out
Like i said...it worked once, I just think I'm leaving out a step
Any help would be appreciated!
p.s. no issues with imac, as it's brand new, 27" 3.1 ghz, 4gb ram, etc...
Curt

Well, like i said, I copied all the files over....kept in the same directory structure...so, to recap...Everything's been copied from the card to ext hard drive KEEPING the same directory structure...I know that FCPX recognizes that structure, and you can't just bring over 1 or 2...Thanks for trying anyway...

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