Sony XDCam HD/ FCP 5.1

Anyone have the definitive answer as to whether or not 5.1 will support ALL of the XDCam HD codecs (incl 35 mb/s) and 24p? I'm getting mixed answers on this one. Sony has a plug-in for FCP that they showed at NAB but it didn't support 35 mb/s yet. Also, I don't have an Intel machine, I'm working on the Quad Core Tower.

Apple announced this at NAB, this will be implemented through the use of a File Access Mode driver (and a FCP import component) plugin from Sony. Although the XDCAM disc will be browsable via FW, the high def media is encoded in the MXF format, which is not yet natively supported in Quicktime. It is the Sony integration plugin (and transfer app) which will unwrap this MXF file and rewrap in a QT compatible movie file on your media drive. The Sony plugin/app already supports transfer of LP,SP and HQ content, the public release for the Sony component and transfer app is slated for end of June.
At this moment, Apple have not publicly released codecs to support the "LP" (18 Mbps) and "HQ" (35 Mbps) codecs, so although one may import the files, as a working solution the initial release will likely support only XDCAM HD at the "SP" quality (25 Mbps) in the timeline using Quicktimes native HDV codec.
When Apple release the LP and HQ codecs then Sony's plugin/app will already support that workflow.
There are a number of seminars already announced regarding the XDCAM HD workflow for FCP, beginning 28th June.

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