Thanks for the help Shane.
Tomorrow I’m going to visit a guy who says he records with a simple consumer handycam that records on SD cards (must be Class 10) that goes into FCP 7 with no transcoding. Does that sound possible?
Regardless I think I need to upgrade even if just to make the 5 hour H.264 MP4 file and/or 5 hour .wmv file at the end. Right now I work mostly on a 2009 macbook pro.
Trying to decide between a new fast PC with Adobe Premier CS6 or a new (expensive) power mac running Premier CS6 or FCP X.
Any thoughts there?
Thanks again for any help out there!
Tom