Wow, for some reason I must be dumber than I thought. After reading all that all i caught was 'it works for you' and 'ffmpeg' and 'HQ and SP'.

You are using PremPro CS3 and you are running it through ffmpeg?

Cineform has an $999 solution but I havent heard anything supporting MainConcept's solution $450ish. I downloaded the demo and everything worked like a freakin dream. I'm seriously considering shelling out the cash for this but would MUCH rather spend it on something liek another chip if it isn't necessary.

With the price of cineform you can get about the whole FCP studio

ffmpeg instructions are already within threads linked in this thread

Yes I am using it on a mac. The files are not converted, just re-wrapped into .mov when tranfered from the camera I think. When I open up the files in the QT player, the codec is Apple XDCAM EX 1080 25p (35mb/sec VBR). With two mono audio tracks in 48kHz Big Endian.

Tobias,

I'm looking for some EX1 samples to edit on my premiere CS3 system.

Would it be possible to provide a link to or to download to my ftp server some small EX1 samples i can play with in premiere cs3?