Larry Jordan has an excellent article on the new Adobe Prelude CS6 for ingesting and logging footage.
I knew it was for logging and even cutting a rough assembly, but didn’t realize it could export to either Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro 7. Very cool.
And it sounds like the biggest issue is the lack of ProRES presets for Media Encorder, which I always found odd, but not hard to create for oneself.
Larry also offers a complete 2 hour tutorial on how to use Prelude at his site.