Converting uncompressed footage to DV pal for editing then reconnect media

Hi all
many thanks for replys as this forum is my salvation at times
i have a clients project and they have started editing but used uncompressed footage, which makes editing impossible on my machine as playback stops as audio continues.
so my thought is to to a batch import into compressor, export out as dv-pal and i hope that i will be able to do a simple reconnect?
i tried this once with mpeg streamclip but due to the timecode 01:00:00:00(rushes) and mpegstreamclip(00:00:00:00) they would not reink.
can anyone shed some light or a good workflow on this
cheers
simon

Read my article in this magazine...I talk about how to do this:
http://www.lafcpug.org/nabsupermag08.html
Shane

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