Possible to edit DVCPro HD footage in iMovie?

I'm shooting DVCPro HD on a Panasonic HPX170. My friend asked me to shoot and deliver footage to be edited in iMovie, so he can edit it himself. Is this possible? If so, please list the necessary steps.

iMovie doesn't work with DVCPRO HD...as that is a professional format and iMovie is a consumer app. If you capture it with FCP, you will have to then import all the footage into iMovie on your end and give him that. The footage will be converted to Apple Intermediate Codec. And note that what they do in iMovie, stays in iMovie. They will not be able to get you anything that will allow you to online/finish in FCP. It will have to stay in iMovie.
Capture in FCP (tutorial: <http://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1)...then open iMovie and import all the footage. Make sure you direct iMovie to import onto an external drive. How? No clue...I don't use imovie.

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