Transferring from Canon Vixia M40 to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4?

I cannot figure this out. I'm trying to transfer files from the built in memory on my Canon HF M40 to my MAC. I am trying to import it into Adobe Premiere CS4 and it's just not happening...it imports into iMovie just fine, but I don't want to use that program, anyone have any ideas?

I'm sorry.
Well I have my camera hooked via USB to my Macbook. When I turn on my camera with iMovie open, it automatically has an import window pop up with  the option to import the clips into iMovie, which is not what I would like to do. I would like to import (what I believe to be MTS video files) from my Canon Vixia to my computer or directly into Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. I have no error messages. My old Canon Powershot camera imported using iPhoto, but I guess this video camera is different since it is HD video files. I don't know what other information to give?

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