….. NO luck…. I don’t have Perian….I don’t have FX Factory… I downloaded and installed everything I could from the Panasonic site that was linked… the only thing I didn’t download was from the Dueladapter site, because I don’t use the Duel on the MacPro…. surely THAT wouldn’t anything to do with it, would it?…. Just thinking out loud here, could there be some bizarre setting that I’m missing on my scratch drive? The only reason I’m asking that is because, while the clip is going through motion of importing I’ve noticed that the space availability on the scratch drive doesn’t change… Is FCP maybe telling the drive..”Hey…I can’t take/use what you’re trying to give me?”…. I’m really at a loss here…. and thanks for the help guys…I’m plugging away at it, and I really appreciate it.