Recommendations on source footage

Howdy folks! I am prepping for a three-day shoot at one of the studios in town. I will be editing in CS6. We will be shooting 1080 24P and have lots of footage to whittle down. The studio will record to their servers and can output whatever format I choose to my hard drive. Generally, I shoot and edit my own footage with either AVCHD or EDCamEX. The studio offered ProRes, but I would prefer to stay away from QT if possible. What would you folks recommend?
Thanks!
Curtis

All this depends a bit on your workflow.
Not sure how they are recording to their servers but lets assume that will be a native camera codec.
Now if your workflow will be Offline (your NLE) ...then Online somewhere else (eg the facilty you shoot at)..you just need clips with timecode for your edit.  eg Prores LT...later to be conformed from EDLto source footage.
Advantage of that is file size in your system and ease of data management.
3 day shoot (multicam? single cam?) generates a lot of data to deal with. Can you cope hardwae wise?
Do a test with the studio before you dig a hole for your self in any unknown workflows.

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