What do I convert AVI's to so I can edit them in final cut pro?

Hi,
I made a house walkthru in autodesk REVIT, and the only export option was uncompressed AVI. I cannot play that format on my mac, nor can I edit that footage in final cut pro. Is there a way to convert the AVI movie to quicktime or another format that can be easily edited in Final Cut Pro?

Open the clip/s with QT and hit command+I. QT Inspector window will tell you what format your footage is (QT and AVI are not codecs but wrappers, containers of a given format).
Create/Export a QT movie version of that format using for example [MPEGstreamclip|http://www.squared5.com>. (MpegStrewamclip main menu>file>export to QT. There choose the same format)
PS.
Ooops! you mentioned autodesk anim...still convert the file into QT ProRes.
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