Unfortunately All,
Your response has very little help in it editing from these different capture devices into FCP 2 or 3 which Apple clearly claimed in their false sales pitch that FCP 2 “was a multi-cam editing for cutting video from multiple camera sources” (wikipedia). At this time FCP in it’s most recent version (3) supports a very limited number of formats in a real working way. If they do support multiple formats, they have distributed very little information to anyone about how those formats ACTUALLY work in their programs.
Apple should have to reconcile these clearly false claims for all of us that have spent many many hours trying to get a program whose maker said their program could work with these format, but in truth offered no explanation except hour long rendering process’s for short clips regardless of your machines speed (Mac Pro 64 gig 3.2 8 processor). If we are going to continue paying these prices for these programs, WE have to demand better updates, programs, and explanations from the corporations that make these annoying but necessary products on how to solve these problems without an expensive or extremely time consuming work around.
Figure it out Apple, and FIX IT FOR FREE. Then you won’t have a lawsuit on your hands.