Capturing DVCPRO 50 into FCP 6

In my Video settings I only have DVCPRO HD, or DV 50 NTSC. But no DVCPRO 50. Should I capture in DV 50 48khz anamorphic (it's 16x9)? Or is there something I should download?

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man, this auto formatting stuff makes it hard to type examples of formatting code!
here: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/images/_IMG.html
as for +the panasonic camera shots PAL dvcpro 50, at 25 frames a second+ thats only true if you've got a PAL model ... what on earth makes you think this a format unique to the PAL world?

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