EDL from FCP Studio to FCP HD

Hello all,
I've been working on a project in FCP Studio (version 5.1.1) and want to give it back to the director so he can look at it on his laptop. However he only has FCP HD (version 4.5) so obviously the project format is too advanced.
Would creating an EDL be the best course of action here, without him having to spend a lot of money on both the OS and FCP upgrades?
I've never used EDL's before, is there a good workflow anywhere on the web, someone can point me in the direction of?
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Fred

Export your sequence as an XML file. See here for details.

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