Problems importing Canon HF10 media into FCP7

Hello everyone, hoping for what I hope will be an obvious answer, but one I've yet to find myself!
I am trying to import files directly from a SDHC card from a Canon Vixia HF10 into the latest version of FCP Studio 7, ( and also I've tried to import into FCExpress ver4 too ), but without success when I put the card into the SDHC reader slot in my new 27" Quad iMac. I get a message when using Log and Transfer saying that it is an incompatible file format. However I can import the files if I download via the camera and USB connection into Log and Capture, that's not always possible of course when the camera's not here, but the used cards are. I have also tried another SDHC card reader into an open USB slot, ( the way I normally import files from my Sony EX1R for instance....), but that doesn't work either.
I know there's an issue with the AVCHD files that the Canon produces, but I thought that recent FCP and FCE applications could deal with that. I am running OSX 10.6.3. In the Log and Capture import prefs the AVCHD option is set to Apple Pro Res 422 HQ. The iMac is a new 27" 2.66 GHz Quad core i5. But I have the same importing issue with my 17" MBP as well.
Any clues would be gratefully received, thanks!

OK, just found the solution, and as pretty much always, it was "operator error"........
The camera, Canon HF10, was set to record to it's internal memory, not the SDHC card. So that's why media could be read when you downloaded via USB2 cable connection, but if you tried to read from the SDHC card slot on the Mac there was nothing there to read. Would have stumbled across this earlier if the error message stated "no media", but it didn't it just said the media could be read.
Solution, set the camera to record to the SDHC card not the internal memory and Log and Capture picks it up just fine with the card is in the reader.
best.......Peter

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