Dave,
I can’t thank you enough for really explaining this to me. This is so frustrating and so time consuming I am just at a loss of how I can speed things up.
So just to go over how the process should be –
1. import footage in from card and have FCP pick the setting (XDCAM HD).
2. edit entire project
3. render project in prores setting
4. export-Quicktime & make self contained movie.
If you can confirm this, I would greatly appreciate it. Please consider the final project needs to go to bluray made on a pc platform.
Thank you so very much.