AVCHD to Final Cut Pro to Avid - how?

I filmed AVCHD material using a Sony HDR-SR12E. First, I put the footage in Final Cut Pro via the special logging dialog (is there a way to adjust the codec FCP puts the footage in?). After editing the footage in FCP, I would like to export the material using a codec, Avid can read, because I need to get the material to my editing company, which uses Avid.
My questions:
1. What codec uses FCP to import AVCHD and is it possible to change that codec, for example to Avid MPEG 50 mbit?
2. Which codec should I use to export the AVCHD footage out of FCP in order to import it to Avid again? I want to lose as little quality as possible, of course.
3. Is AVCHD a MPEG codec, which I think it is (MPEG 4, right) and therefore a upper field first codec? Would it, in this case, be appropriate to export the footage with FCP using a Avid MPEG 50 mbit codec?
Just for info: After editing the AVCHD scenes with Final Cut Pro and exporting the stuff to an Avid codec, I want to import the footage to Avid in order to get the .mxf files which I want to deliver to my production company via external hard disk. Is there a better and easier way to transfer AVCHD footage to an Avid?
Thanks a lot for your kind help.

You won't be able to convert to MXF, but you can download the Avid Quicktime codecs from AVID.COM and then export to those. That will be the best you can do.
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