Targa sequence, how to import it only with Final Cut

Anyone knows how to import a targa sequence, without first making it a quicktime movie with QTPP(pro)?
I know the method of the 1 frame duration of a still, I want the final cut to recognize the targa sequence as a SEQUENCE...
Is that too much too ask from such an editing platform like Final Cut? I hope NOT

do not have QTPP
I read about that way
any way to do it without QTPP?
normal QT does not allow me to export in alpha channel...as my graphics are supposed to play on top of shots not on their own...
I'm desperate, have to deliver the project 2 days from now and I'm not good in compromising with anything at all...
thanks you in advance...

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