Workflow with a Canon XF 100

Hey, I recently got a Canon XF 100 and Ive been import the footage by copying the .mxf files from the card to my hard drive then imoprt it to PP. Just wondering if any one has a better workflow?

I'm considering an XF100. What kind of interface do you all recommend to get the files or folders from the card to the workstation hard drive? I think I read about card readers and UBS cables, but no HDMI or FireWire or capture direct to OnLocation.
And is it fully compatible with PP, AE CS4?
BTW, you used the Canon Utility to copy all the files at once, Stephen. http://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/28728/~/importing-clips-from-a-cf- card-to-the-computer-(xf105%2Fxf100).
Thx.
Paul

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Thank you Stephen, but I personally prefer to edit with one big file per card (or per tape) I can scrub easily, instead of having hundreds of small files with numbers (like mxf files), especially when I have hundreds of hours of footage. To help me, I can always make a detailed shot list.
So I tried to do like this ; sorry for my English and if I repeat certain points, but I hope it could help other people :
on the timeline, I imported all the mxf clips coming from one card,
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First of all, as I already described, after I closed and reopened premiere pro, one of my two mono tracks on the timeline became empty: you can see the segments on the timeline but there is no more sounds inside. It is clearly a bug of ppro. I’ve read different posts with audio problems on mxf files imported into ppro.
So what I did is that instead of calculating a new stereo wav file from my original sequence, I calculated two mono files, one for each channel. Then I imported those files into ppro and and I merged it with my video only nested sequence. I, then, could edit properly with two mono tracks even if I closed and reopened ppro.
But the problem is that now, if, for any reason, I become out of sync on the timeline between video and audio segments, there is no more red indications to tell me the number of frames out of sync. And of course, you cannot use the functions of ppro to re-synchronize ("move into sync, slip into sync"). And this is a huge problem (strangely, a nested sequence keeps that function but it has only one audio track).
I sometimes wonder how the programs are developed. Mxf files is supposed to be a step ahead, but it becomes in the real editing, at least with ppro, two steps backward. From what I’ve read on the net, many people like me lost a lot of time trying to find a solution for editing mxf with ppro, and even if I decide to work with two mono tracks as I described, which is long and painful with hundreds of hours, how can I be sure I won’t meet another audio issue later on.
It is clear that the developers of ppro are not editors or directors. All I want to do with my mxf files is the basic of the editing. I want a car I can drive properly, not a car with air conditioned, that has no brakes.
So if they hear me : could you please update ppro so that we could edit properly with mxf files? It means :
1/ inside ppro, merge all the clips from the same card into one clip, that we can edit with two mono tracks if we decide
2/ keep the out of sync function for each audio channel with that merged clip.
Of course, if there is a workaround, I would be happy to know it.
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