Can FCP 7 Edit Motion JPEG 1280x720 Shot On A Compact Camera?

I may have to edit some footage shot on a Panasonic FX60 compact camera.
All I know about the format is that it is Motion JPEG 1280x720 30fps. (It also shoots several smaller frame sizes).
Has FCP 7 got settings to handle this material . . . . I have looked but can't find any?
If not, is there some workaround maybe using Streamclip?

You might be able to make a custom preset for this media. Motion JPEG can be tricky because there are a lot of proprietary forms of it using custom data rates. You'll also want to check if the camera shoots 30fps, or if that's just a silly euphemism for 29.97fps. The other thing you'll want to consider is what you plan to do with later for delivery. Being in a PAL country the frame rate is not very helpful. You may be better off converting it to ProRes, but you'll have to figure out what you want to do with the frame rate.

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