Need help with managing .mts files from Canon XA-10

I capture a lot of lectures and other long events.  As such, I need to import my files and then put them into the Premiere Pro CC timeline in order but when I do, it looks like they're skipping a frame when arranged chronologically.  Usually I find the footage on the camera through the Media Browser and then bring that one big file into the timeline and export it that way.  This process takes FOREVER.  I'd prefer to be able to copy the individual 2GB .mts files and add them to my timeline.  Any ideas or solutions out there?

Ok, so, perhaps explaining my workflow in detail would help better address my problem:
1. record lecture, let's say 1 hour
     That will make around 5 2GB .mts files on the Canon XA-10 Built-in Memory(64GB)
2. connect camera via USB 3.0 port to computer and create a new PP project for this lecture
3. through the Media Browser tab, I locate the file on the camera and drop it into the timeline of the new project
4. wait for the file to conform(depending on the length of the file, could take many minutes, sometimes an hour)
5. after conforming, I export the file in it's entirety to it's appropriate project folder on the computer(this will take at least as long as the file length, most times longer).  On the export screen, I check the box to import file into project upon completion.
As you can see, importing my tapeless assets from the camera can take up to an hour and a half, sometimes longer, before I am able to start editing them.  Obviously, when I simply copy the 2GB .mts files from the camera to a project folder through Finder or Windows Explorer, it takes a considerably less amount of time.  The problem I then encounter is that when I then try to place them into the PP project timeline as individual files, they appear to skip frames at their edit points, or about every 11.5 minutes.  I just tired JSS1138's idea and I get the same problem as before.

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