FCP and Sony PMW 320 love question

So we are ready to FINALLY upgrade to HD here at our channel. I have been looking at the Sony PMW320s and reading about the MPEG2 Long Frame recording. I wanted to know if anyone has good or bad FCP editing experience with this. From what I can tell it is going to be similar to HDV?
I am mainly concerned about transcoding times to ProRes.
I was hoping to be done with HDV but the fact that it records to SDHC cards as opposed to optical discs that require another $3000 machines at desks is an advantage to me.
Thanks for any input on this...

If I receive HDV media on a hard drive, and don't have time to transcode to ProRes, I usually create a matching HDV timeline, then switch the sequence compressor to ProRes, and change the Render Control codec to ProRes too (even though I could keep it on 'Same as Sequence Codec').
Good. But you don't need to switch the render Control to ProRes, if your sequence already is. Well, actually, if you do this you make an ANAMORPHIC ProRes sequence. Just make a ProRes sequence and drop the HDV into it. THen you are full raster from the get go. But, the other way isn't bad... I've done it.
I switch the sequence to ProRes because I bring in a lot of graphics elements, and usually heavily stylise the images, lots of on-screen texts facts and crawlers etc, so rendering is inevitable.
Smart smart smart...!
Could you reassure me; if I have limited time and transcoding hours and hours of HDV to ProRes before I edit isn't an option, is the above work-flow correct?
Consider yourself assured. Just edit in a ProRes sequence and all will be good.
Shane

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