Panasonic TM900 Owners Who Successfully Converted 1080 60p Video for FCPX

I am looking for Panasonic TM900 owners only please!!
(Please don't respond unless you have converted 1080 60p video from a TM900 camcorder)
Thanks to Tom Wolsky, it appears there is a resolution for how to get 1080 60p video into FCPX that is like quality with no degradation via ClipWrap.
What I am looking for is other TM900 owners who have successfully done this and are pleased with the results, i.e. no degradation in video quality, no weird video artifacts added or random blank green frames added every second or so.
What did you use, i.e. ClipWrap, Aunsoft Final Mate, etc?
Was the process simple or were there a lot of "tuning" steps required?
I am at a loss here because I love my TM900 especially with 1080 60p video and was hoping the AVCCAM Importer would be the saviour we all thought it would but unfortunately it is only for Qucktime 7 and Final Cut Pro, not FCPX.
I am trying to figure out what to do, purchase FCXP assuming you guys have had great success converting or wrapping the .mts files, buy the add on product or purchase another program which has this support built in, i.e. Adobe Premier Pro or worse yet, go back to my PC.
I just want to be able to make simple edits with transitions, create a nice DVD menu and output to Blue-ray.
Appreciate some feedback!!

I used final mate to help make MTS videos compatible by mac as I do not want the immediate rendering when importing videos to FCP. If you want to burn MTS files to blu ray disc. Why not try Toast? Refer to this post:
http://eshop.macsales.com/articles/howto-burn-bluray-toast

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