Avid segment coming to FCP, HD Prores timeline

Is there a way to get anything off the AVID onto an Apple Prores 422 1080 60i timeline? I've read here about using Avid codecs, but I want to make the AVID material totally FCP-neutral. I don't want to change my timeline. I have no idea how to work in this area. Can it be fully transcoded? Just a six minute piece of media.

Avid can export to a QuickTime .mov file.
Depending which version, maybe even to the ProRes 422 codec.

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