Aftereffects, Photoshop or other grafic Sequence imports?

Hey People,
Two questions to people really using FCPX.
I am still doubting to buy FCPX because of this. I need to buy the full set of Adobe Production Suite anyway for Photoshop, Illustrator and Aftereffects. Yes, I will have the by then almost free Premiere Pro too. That will work great with Afteraffects and footage I import from my 3d programs. But I am worried that my Macs will find it harder to work for APP than for FCP, performancewise. So I was concidering to use FCPX for editing my AVCHD/XDCAM footage instead of Premiere and then use Afteraffects and Photoshop with that.
1) But is it possible to import imagesequences (w Alpha), or Photoshop layers? If no: Is it possible to import movie files with alpha? If you're anwser is NO than I have no choice and go to Premier.
2) Is there anyone who tested AVCHD or XDCAM footage on a Mac Pro and Mac Book in both Premiere Pro and FCPX. Is there any difference in performance?   

You can import  QT movies with alpha channel in FCPX.
I did that just now, it works in real time ...
If you want image sequenses , you can import them in Motion 5 and compressor and then export them for FCPX.
I tried the same footage from my Sony dslr (avchd) on both Premiere 5.5 and FCPX , no difference.

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