By the way the error code 0 was due to ProRes HQ increasing the file size over the 3.5GB, so the Fat32 drive I have formated on my Mac would not accept the larger files. Lesson learned if you do this method make sure you keep your files under the Fat32 3.5GB limit.

Again Aaron thanks for you help with the Final Cut to Premier Pro PC transfer.

Paul, the smoothness issue is the higher bitrate creating a larger file, probably running into a disk i/o constraint. Quicktime may stutter on playback but they should playback fine in FCP, since FCP can dynamically adjust quality so it plays back smoothly.

Agree Aaron the disk i/o seems to not keep up at the bit rates over 100Mbps. Hope Premier Pro does not have a issue.

Unfortunately Paul, I don't think Quicktime can do the dynamic quality adjustment on playback like FCP can. From what I've been able to uncover, the dynamic quality adjustment on playback is built into the ProRes codec but no apps, other than FCP seem to actually do the dynamic quality adjustment. None that I've used at least.

Agreed I have found the same that it has to be on a FC timeline to play over the 100Mbps back smooth.