Just a note regarding the FS-100... Recently we shot a 9 day national infomercial and another 7 day shoot for James Hardie Siding - 4 :60 second national commercials - at times using 3 HVX cameras/FS-100 units. We had no problems either with workflow or technically.
During the shooting we put the units on 25' jib arms, suspended them from rooftops... banged them around pretty good. Bottom line, the footage both video/audio in DVCPRO 50 (infomercial was shot 30P, there is a workaround to do this) was gorgeous. Posting the footage in Avid Express was seamless with no problems. We used the Raylight codec onsite to view wm AVI dallies. The footage was dumped off to external firewire hard drives via the Sony Vaio.
Regarding NLE editing, I know that FCP 5.1 can import the MXF files direct.. but to use on any NLE timeline the conversion codecs: Aspect HD/Connect HD (Cineform) and or RayMaker (Raylight dvfilm.com) convert to AVI 1 files for easy import... Both are great products..!
