Anyone using a Panasonic SD1 - 5.1 question

Hi
I have a Panasonic SD1 HD camcorder which records audio as 5.1 surround. However I can't seem to get FCPx to import the footage with 5.1 soundtrack. Has anyone managed to achieve this yet.
I did try using voltaic to encode a separate surround audio file but FCPx doesn't like the AC3 format it uses so I can't import that.
I recently moved from FCE4 which was only stereo so it has never been an issue previously ...
Thanks
Dave

You might want to take a look at these links.
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=888324
http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newreadpost.cgi?forumid=8&postid=887896
This guy is using a MacBook Pro, not an iMac, but it gives you a good idea of about what you're going to see. I would assume that the iMac would be a little bit faster, considering it is a desktop as opposed to a laptop. Anyway, hopefully those will give you some insight. In general it seems to work very well considering he's comparing a powermac g5 dual core (a high end desktop) to the MacBook Pro (a high end laptop, but a laptop nonetheless). Hope this helps!

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