Working with XDCam Footage in Shake. Is it Possible?

Hey Guys,
From what I've been able to dig up, Shake doesn't like rendering out to XDCam in File-Out nodes and it's been the same case for me. XDCam renders brought in to FCS are slow to load and constantly bring up the beach-ball. Is it the same case for File-In nodes too? Should I avoid working with the XDCam format entirely?
The other problem I've been having, is I'll File-In the XDCam footage, work through the process to get a greenscreen key and then I've tried several different file-out CoDecs: Animation, ProRes422, ProRes422 (HQ), DV/DVCPro NTSC, and the only format that comes out normal is the DV/DVCPro NTSC. All the others are shortened.
So my question is, what's happening to my footage? The original is 10,372 Frames (Roughly 5:45) and yet I get different render times for each, even though the Flipbook shows 10k+ Frames rendered.
422(HQ) at the Original 1280x720 - 2:34
422(HQ) resized to 864x480 - 3:52
422 at the original size 1280x720 - 3:50
DV/DVCPro NTSC at 1280x720 - 5:46
Animation at 1280x720 - :20 (That one was an odd one.)
Can anyone help by explaining to me what's going on? I've even tried putting an 8-bit "Bytes" node before the file-out, as some have suggested, and still no glory. I should not that ProRes422 (HQ) is the timeline setting for my Final Cut Project and everything was shot on an XDCam ex-3 at 720p30.

I don't have any interlacing options selected in either node and the clip just stops automatically at 2:34 (4636 Frames). The file-in format is a 1280x720, 29.97fps, Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), 13.6 MB/sec Data Rate. The File-out node is set to the same 29.97fps, Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec and is left at 1280x720. When imported back into Final Cut the Data Rate is slightly lower at 13.2 MB/sec, but that is the only difference.
What makes me doubly confused is that if I put a resize node before my file out and size the 422 (HQ) file to a proportional 864x480 (other details the same) I get a longer video file as the result at 3:52 (6962 Frames), at an 8.8MB/sec Data Rate, but still well short of the full 5:45 (10375 Frames). The only file-out format that doesn't truncate my video is a 1280x720 DV/DVCPro - NTSC and it's Data Rate is 3.4MB/sec but the quality is so low as to warrant not using it.

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