Mac Avid to Color and FCP

A freind of mine--yes, honestly, there is a friend--has built a project in a Mac Based Avid Program. He no needs to take it to another person who will color correct it using Color in FCP. I am Mac only literate and don't have an answer.
Can anybody give me some insight on how it needs to be transfered?

You will have to recapture. Best to use Automatic Duck to help. Export an AAF from Avid, use the Duck to import that into FCP...it retains a lot of information from the Avid, pretty amazing.
www.automatic.duck.com
Now, while the Duck can export ref QTs to allow FCP to see the media...you need to have the Avid codecs installed for this to work...but then you cannot send this to COLOR, as COLOR doesn't work with Avid media. I have tried then using the Media Manager to convert to ProRes, but that didn't work out well. The Avid original MXF files might be the issue, but it just didn't work. You will have to recapture the media.
But it is pretty easy.
Shane

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I've been given some .mov files to use on FCP.
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I am on mac 10.5.8 and FCP 6.0.6.
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I've been told this happened to somebody else last week, but didn't get a resaon why.
Any clues as to why this is happening? I suspect it's a codec issue of some sort
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G

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http://www.nanocosmos.de/v4/en/products/quicktimeIMX.html
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http://www.pavtube.com/guide/working-with-xdcam-imx-media-in-fcp-avid-imovie-ppr o.html
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