ProRes Conversion Times

I've noted before that I'm getting better than 50% realtime performance with my Mac Pro Quad Core 3.0 when converting to ProRes. But this is using a SD card reader plugged in to a USB 2 port. With the Canon HG-20, we were using the internal HDD and because of this we had to plug the camera directly in to the computer with the provided USB cable. The resulting transcode times nearly doubled. We shot about 3 hours of material with this camera and it took a little under 3 hours to transcode. So basically you trade the convenience of having an internal storage option with the Canon with much slower transcoding times.

Note: The Canon HG-20 does accept SD cards, so you can bypass recording to the internal drive you if you so choose.