Olympus PEN E-P3 camera videos to iMovie.

I am new to iMovies '09. I recently got an Olympus PEN E-P3 camera. I recorded videos and want to edit them using iMovies. However, I can't seem to watch the videos or import them into iMovie. The videos are AVCDH, there is a clip folder (CPI) and a stream folder (MTS). I use to own a Canon that will automatically import the videos. But I tried to manually import the videos, but MacBook Pro can't detect the videos. I hope I can get some simple guidance. I'm really bad at computers. Thanks in advance!

Tonzion is right. In iMovie when you go to File Menu> Import Movies. . . if you can create the Camera Archive, that will copy everything to the Mac and make iMovie recognize the AVCHD clips.
When your camera records it makes a series of folders that contain important info. If you try to pull just the clips into iMovie it's going to have problems.

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Olympus PEN E-P3 camera videos to iMovie.

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