Why won't FCE recognize my camera???

I recently switched from a mini-DV tape camcorder to one that records directly to hard disk or card. I did this so that I could use log & transfer capturing. Specifically, the camera is a standard definition Panasonic SDR-H85. In short recording mode, it uses MPEG-2 compression. Those clips have the .mod file extension. In long recording mode it uses MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 for compression. Those clips have the mp4 file extension. So far I've only recorded to hard disk. But no matter what mode I recorded in, FCE4 does not detect or register my camera. It will also not let me import folders with the media in them to log & transfer because they contain "unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure," even files containing .mod clips converted to .mov. I already did the easy set up changing the format to Apple Intermediate Codec for the AVCHD per Tom Wolfsky's manual. And my version of FCE is the updated 4.0.1. So what is the problem? I can upload this media with other software programs so it's not a connection issue. Someone please help me!

In addition, to save time, does it make sense to only shoot footage in the long play mode since that automatically comes out in mp4 format? That way I can bypass the conversion altogether. The manual says there's no difference in image quality between short play mode and long play mode. Long play mode actually gives you twice the recording time. I don't even know why they have short play mode then unless there are folks who prefer to work with the mpeg-2/.mod formats. So what do you think?

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