Log and Transfer without original cards?

I had to go back to FCP7 for a project and I forgot to "log and transfer" and just pulled in my H.264 files. I have all the raw movie files in a folder on my HDD, but I do not have the CF cards or disk images. Is there anyway to go through log and transfer to transcode my H.264 files? For what I remember it wants the directory structure from my CF card (shot on Canon Mark iii) but I don't have those anymore. I do have the movie files themselves so I don't feel like I should be sorry out of luck.
Any help would be great.
Thanks!

You don't need Log and Transfer for this...you can use Compressor to convert this footage to ProRes 422. There are presets in Compressor so it'll all just be drag and drop.

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