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« on: July 14, 2012, 06:31:27 AM »
Sorry if my english is confusing, But here is my experience:
You should think about migrate to Premiere 5.5 or 6. it handles the H264 Codec and allows you to work in post with it. FCP 7 goes really crazy when you put a H264 clip in a timeline, eve if you render it. And render takes a lot of time.
I'm working in some microdocus. record at least 220 min for each, own a macbook from 2008 series, core 2 duo, very small video card, and 6GB of ram (yes you can do that 1 slot with 2GB and 4 on the other).
I can edit in premiere 5.5 with no recompress process. Just the H264 .mov HD material from my camera. Some times it get slow, but in general works fine. You can do also an "offline" edition and at the end reconnect raw footage and export from source material.
Put all the raw footage inside a folder called RAW, then do a batch export wit MPEG Streamclip to sd with DV-NTSC codec into a Folder called OFFLINE. All the new files must have the exact name and extension as the originals. Edit, and before export make offline and reconnect the files to the raw footage and export.
Hope it works for you.