Importing footage from Panasonic GH2to FCP

Firstly, am I right in thinking that fooatge imported using iMovie will come into FCP and only be able to be used in a sequence with AIC?
I bought the GH2 a year ago and had trouble importing.  I got a tech guy  to help and he said just use iMovie.  I have been using that all this time and only recently found out that the pro res 422 codec i imported footage with was never in use and that the AIC that I used has poor quality. 
Do I need a plug in to import?
I'm using version 6.0.
Catherine.

You need to use something like Compressor or MPEG STREAMCLIP to convert the footage to ProRes. FCP won't import it/convert it directly. AIC is a BAD codec.  And you need to stay away from iMovie...your tech was way wrong.

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