Canon c300 - Prelude or Canon XF Utility for Ingest?

Hey all, I've been scouring the net for advice on an upcoming shoot I'm DIT/Media Manager for, just to make sure that I got my workflow down pat. Problem is, I haven't really found reliable answers either way concerning the above question, so I thought I'd put it to the community to see what their response was.
Mainly, for ingest of c300 footage recorded to CF cards, what is your workflow to get the media into Premiere?
Do you
A)
Ingest card with Canon XF utility to multiple drives > Create new project with Premiere CC > use Media Browser to import your cards - > start cutting
OR
B)
Ingest card with Prelude CC to multiple drives -> Send to Premiere -> Start cutting.
Or some combination there of? Do any of you Transcode to ProRes or DNxHD?
My biggest concern is avoiding corrupting the data from the card. I know Prelude has a MD5 checksum, which is why i use it for pretty much everything else (not sure if XF utility does a bit by bit comparison). But I'm worried about the Spanning mutliple clips issues as this is a interview, multi camera shoot with long takes (see here -> http://forums.adobe.com/message/5045764#5045764)
Any other advice you have, or examples of your workflow would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
D
Oh and for reference, my system is:
2011 15" MBP i7 2.2 ghz
8 GB RAM
Mountain Lion 10.8.5
CC (and CS6 if it works better)

For me, XF Utility without any doubt since i don't want to transcode the footage.
I transfer the cards with Explorer or Finder and then point XF Utility to the footage to either delete clips and/or create vitrual cards and transfer the files from the card/s to new virtual cards for better file managament. If you use XF Utility to transfer the footage from the camera to a virtual card, it will work and spanned clips will work as expected, so it is not necessary to first transfer the card and it's whole content to the computer. I have used XF utility for years and know that it works with spanned footage and that one can use it to transfer let's say 10 clips from a card in the camera with 100 clips on it. Premiere Pro has no problems to import virtual cards created with XF Utility. Timecode and everything is still there.
Use both methods and decide which one is best for you. (ie XF Utility of Prelude)
/Roger

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