Definitely set sequence to the ProRes transcode. Or, you can drag an ingested ProRes clip into your timeline and let it match settings automatically. It's a shortcut, albeit not infallible.
XDCAM, although you can edit it in FCP7, just as you can HDV and H.264, is primarily a compressed camera codec.
- Loren
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