Importing Panasonic HDC-SD90 in iMovie

I'm truing to import Panasonic HDC-SD90 videofootage in iMovie, can do that only through conversion by iVI (Third Party coversion software). Has ther been improvement from Appel to convert HD movie directly from camera? iMAc 10.6.6. + iMovie 11. P.s.
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So -- is it possible to import from the HDC-SD90 to iMovie?
I'm using iMovie '11 9.0.4.
When I insert an SDHC card with movies on it from the HDC-SD90, iMovie opens the import dialog, but Import All.. is greyed out, and I can't select any of the movies in manual mode.
Do I need to change settings on the camera? The movies are shown in iMovie with 60p with a red stop symbol over the top. (Excuse my ignorance -- I don't know much about video recording formats.)
The HDC-SD90 appears on Apple's list of supported cameras for iMovie '11.
(I'm in the UK, so assuming this is PAL...)

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