Best setting for importing stills in FCP

Hi
I 'd like to import stills shot with a Canon MarkII camera (each still is HD 5616x3744) with the intent of burning a BluRay
What are the settings I should use in FCP when I import to edit and then in QT to get a QT file that I will use in Toast for BR burning.
Thanks
Ivan

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The 5D Mark II was the first DSLR to feature 1080p video recording.[8] The Canon PowerShot SX 1 IS followed with full HD in a bridge digital camera soon after.[9] The 16:9 aspect ratio portion of the sensor used in video mode is equivalent in sensitive area to a VistaVision 8/35 frame, even larger than the Super 35 frame of the much more expensive Red One camera. This large sensor allows videos to be recorded with very shallow depth of field for a "film look".
The 21 megapixel sensor is downsampled to HD resolution by only using every third line and 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, leading to concern about Moiré patterns in recorded video.

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