AVCHD and 5.1 audio into FCP 6.01?

Hi-
I'm trying to import and transfer AVCHD video and the associated 5.1 audio from a Panasonic HDC-SD1 AVCHD camcorder into Final Cut. The picture comes in fine, but when I try to import the audio, the Log and Transfer window downmixes the audio to stereo, and there's no way to get the program to import discrete tracks. I've tried ProRes and the Kona codec, no go either way. Any ideas?

The audio is already encoded in 5.1 AC3 Dolby Digital.
You can't edit the encoded stream in FCP or Soundtrack.
You need to import the audio and decode to 5 channel aiff files
using something such as the free mAC3dec
then add the 5 separate files to the timeline.
Figuring out what track is which channel may be difficult.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac3dec/
Of course you will lose quality because Dolby Digital is highly compressed
and is meant only as a delivery format, not an editing format.

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