Thanks Steve for getting back to me.
I just transfer the ProRes footage off onto my hard drive, inport into FCP, I than do my editing. Usually I say save as a quicktime movie and not with quicktime conversion and make a reference movie. That is the correct way? Is that the way you might do it? There is no other way to get the files out of quicktime a bit faster?
Do you know of any software options to make H.264 exports? Compressor crashes way too often. Any luck with Sorensen Squeeze or Telestream Episode? Or is the hardware way better?
Thanks