Trouble transferring from Log and Transfer.

Hi,
I have a brand new Panasonic HDC-HS20 camera. I am recording with the HA1920 setting on my camera. While in Log and Transfer I am able to select the clips I want to add to the queue, but after FCE acts like the clips will be loaded; a red stop sign with a exclamation point appears. I have tried changing the conversion from Matrix audio to Plain audio, and that doesn't seem to change anything.
What does anyone think I need to do? Is it possible that this camera is so new new, that FCE does not fully support it yet?
Thanks a lot,
Nick Landt

I assume these settings will match my media because HA1920 is the highest quality setting on my camera. The only thing I could not figure out is what rate i should use.. i picked 29.97 fps. Could it be 25 fps?
And this is a hard drive camera. And all the media are the same format.

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