Importing *.m2ts files to Final Cut Expres 4.0

Hi,
I've just bought FCE 4.0 to play around with my new Sony HDR-CX7EK camera. First I installed the windows-software that came with the camera on my windows-ibm laptop. It gave me moff, modd and m2ts-files. I guess the m2ts file is the actual data as this file is the biggest. After installing FCE I copied the files via a usb-stick to my MAC. Ready for a long evening with lots of videoediting I was quite sad that I did not understand the m2ts-format. Could anyone tell me what I can do? I have deleted the files from the camera and now I only have these files that I really really want to work on in FCE!

Hello. I'm am unable to work with my years worth of .m2ts files. These files were shot on my SONY HDR-SR1 camera in AVCHD format.
For the past year, I had a work-flow of plugging in the camera and browsing the file structure and removing the .m2ts files from the camera to external storage on a Windows XP machine.
I played around with SONY VEGAS but thought it was too complicated, and rendered previews terribly on my machine (which was WinXP running in BootCamp, natively), but it can read my .m2ts files.
SO....last week I purchased Final Cut Express 4.0 with excitement because of it's new support for AVCHD editing!
However, it appears that there is a "folder/file" structure that I failed to "preserve" in my old "copy" process seems to prevent Final Cut from "recognizing" my media? What's the deal? Anyone know a "workaround" to fix this? I also tried the StreamClip application as another post suggested, purchased the $20.00 MPEG2 converter for QuickTime and receive the "Cannot find the first video frame" message....
I have wedding footage, my child's first birth footage, windsurfing footage that I really want to start working with...
I'm glad that the SONY purchase I made and it's AVCHD format is catching on, but after all this time, options seem far-too limited.
/jm

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