FCS 1080 50p incompatibility question

I was seconds away from clicking the add to cart button on a Panasonic HDC-HS900 camcorder when its manual finished downloading from their website - so I took a look...
For as long as I remember, I have always prefered shooting in 25p at 1/25 or 1/50 - it's just so much easier on the eye - but that is aesthetic and subjective. Sometimes I like to use slow motion effects for various reason and found in the past that using a 50% speed on 25p SD gave an acceptable slow motion effect. But I want to move on from SD and I am checking out various HD camcorders. I figured that using 50p footage would allow me to slow down to 25p to produce a much improved slow motion effect - and maybe I could still push it a little further if I wanted.
It was at this point that I accidentally read in the manual that 50p footage was incompatible with Mac software. It only named iMovie but that was enough to stop me in my tracks and start searching for more information. I found nothing but bad news insofar as my slo-mo plan - but the short story is that 50p is not compatible with FCS.
But before I give up on this camcorder, I thought I would ask if there is a way to import 50p HD and slow it down to 25p for use in FCS.
Any thoughts?

Well, after several days of consideration, I finally ordered the Panasonic HDC-HS900 but it was not without a great deal of bewilderment - wondering why what had become a virtual industry standard video editing application does not support the top end of consumer HD video.
After having migrated from Premiere to Final Cut almost ten years ago, I already had reservations about the way FCS was going with the release of FCX which, when I tried it out, felt like a retrograde step to try to pick up ambitious iMovie users. I somehow got the impression that FCX was a totally different product and that FCS would still be developed but it seems that I was wrong.
Having then discovered that Premiere does a number of things which FCS does not and now that it imports 1080 50p video without any third party messing around, it seems that I will be migrating back.
I'm sure it will not be without a lot of catching up and I may find at some point that either the migration to Premiere is too problematic or that Apple update FCS.
Salt and vinegar?

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