ACVHD files to Blu-ray, can I use FCP?

I am about to buy a Duo Quad 2.66Ghz Mac Pro, 12gb, Raid, ATI 4870 etc. I have tones of ACVHD (.mts) files of family/holiday footage of my Sony CX12 which I want to put on Blu-ray disc. Indeed Apple doesn't support Blu-ray but I read that you can plug in a (say) LG blu-ray burner and put it on disc via FCP, am I right to assume this? I am a novice with computers and often the talk about native realtime edditing etc goes well over my head.
Just a simple question, can I edit (multiple time lines, titles) my Sony ACVHD files in FCP and burn them to Blu-ray disc?

Take a read here on the procedures with Blu-Ray and Macs...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/taming_the_wildblu.html
and
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/taming_the_wild_blu2.html
Jerry

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