Another HPX3000 Project - DVCProHD/50/AJA Question

We have another job coming down the pipes that will be shot on a Panasonic HPX3000. We recently completed one that ended up being a nightmare because the prodco shot it using the AVCIntra codec and it ended up being a couple extra solid days of transcoding before I could even edit. (See following thread...)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8126909&#8126909
This time, our Avid editor will be editing it on a Meridien Media Composer (he doesn't know FCP), so my plan is to load the footage using my MacBook Pro, FCP 6.0.4, AJA ioHD, Caldigit SVRDuo 1.5TB RAID setup again and downcovert the footage to letterboxed SD. The project will be finished this way anyway.
Questions:
Can I directly import P2 footage shot with this camera if it's shot utilizing the DVCProHD codec or the DVCPro 50 SD codec and not have to transcode on the MacBook Pro to ProRes422 for realtime play back through the AJA ioHD?
If I have to transcode, is it a lot faster than transcoding from AVCIntra? It's 3-1/2 hours of footage, so it's quite a lot.
Thanks in advance.

This time, our Avid editor will be editing it on a Meridien Media Composer
He REALLY needs to upgrade his system if he wants to start working with all this new fangled tapeless technology. OR you need to import this footage into an Avid Media Composer (the new one...3.0, or even 2.8) and then transcode it to SD OMFI that the older machine can recognize. That would be the best method...barring the man simply upgrading. It is silly cheap now.
The way you are doing it will cause a lot of loss. Importing...fine. Down converting to SD...compression. Bring to Avid...have it import and convert to OMFI...compression. And you have to choose a format that the Avid can actually see and import. DVCPRO 50..not it. ProRes, sure, there in a decoder for that. but a Meridian...that is on OS9 I'll wager. Won't work.
Test a small clip and see. But this is a poor workflow, IMHO.
Can I directly import P2 footage shot with this camera if it's shot utilizing the DVCProHD codec or the DVCPro 50 SD codec and not have to transcode on the MacBook Pro to ProRes422 for realtime play back through the AJA ioHD?
YOu can only import the P2 footage as the format it was shot. If you need it to be a different codec, you have to do that later. And you do not need to transcode it to anything in order for the I/O HD to play it. It will play it in the natural format you imported it as.
If I have to transcode, is it a lot faster than transcoding from AVCIntra? It's 3-1/2 hours of footage, so it's quite a lot.
DUnno. Probably the same time. The only formats that take a LONG time are the long GOP ones.
-shane

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