JVC Everio to MAC problems

Hello
I've been a MAC user for a few years now but would never consider myself as a technically minded person......hence the probably stupid question.
I recently bought a JVC Everio GZ-MG630 hard drive video camera to use for my wedding and honeymoon. Obviously the bloke in the shop thought it would plug straight into a mac and work no fuss......wrong.
I have managed to work out how to connect it and get the files into a viewable format using Mpeg Streamclip but.......is it the best way to get the files into a viewable format? It seems a very tedious slow way of doing things with me having to individually drag each clip, convert it etc etc. When it is all done the quality is also disappointingly poor quality with grainy lines, bad sound and sometimes an almost unviewable screen.
Any advice would be great. I have looked this up on the other forums but get lost in the technical side of it, i literally want to plug it in and watch / burn the footage. A little upsetting having got a £500 camera, £1200 imac and £750 macbook......
Cheers

If you want to keep backups of your everio .MOD movie files, other than just the ones stuck inside iMovie. Here is is what you do. Copy the ones you want right now into iMovie, then copy the ones you want to import into iMovie later, or maybe you just want to backup them up, from the camera to hard drive (internal or external). When you are ready to import these into iMovie later you just get an external drive or a thumb drive and do the following:
1) Create a root folder called Mp_Root on an external drive, USB stick, SD card... (probably works with a disk image as well, though I haven't tried it)
2) Inside this folder create another folder called 101PNV01
3) Copy your .mod files inside the 101PNV01 folder and change the extensions to .mpg
4) Restart iMovie. It will now detect the external drive as a camera and allow to import all the clips using the date created/modified info as timestamps for perfect cataloging.
iMovie does NOT re-encode the movie files, you retain full quality. It simply puts them in a .mov container and creates the thumbnails.
The reason for this is because you can only import .MOD movies into iMovie from the JVC camera. So If you store these of the camera this is currently the only way to get them imported into iMovie.
I learned this from "Valenciano", a user on this Apple board.

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