Preparing Premiere HDV MPEG files for FCP 5

I have three one hour MPEG video clips that were captured in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 using HDV settings (1440x1080i/60 16:9) that need to move to my colleague's mac. We no longer have the camera or tapes to recapture the footage directly to the mac, thus requiring us to use the HDV footage captured by Premiere.
FCP 5 didn't like the footage when directly imported (not a shock). We checked out Streamclip as a way to demux the files into separated video (M2V) and audio (AIFF), but that doesn't seem to be correct either as FCP wants to render all the footage on the timeline.
Looking for the correct solution without recompressing or altering the footage to the point that the HDV video isn't worth watching anymore. Apple Intermediate Codec seems like a necessary step in FCP, but we don't want to expend the hard drive resources (and compute time) without knowing if the streamclip settings are adequate for FCP's conversion.
Any help is welcome!
Spires Video

choose make quicktime movie and select apple intermediate codec move slider to best, size to 1440 x 1080 being that streamclip will see it at display size. set an in and out to do a short section to test. you don't want m2v for FCP. can't remember if FCP5 allows AIC or not

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