In the old days (last year) for certain projects we would burn a timecode dub from tape to a DVD burner to give to clients to pick out shots they wanted to use as opposed to coming in and using up our time. Well now we're full HD importing AVCHD video from SanDisk cards. I know one way I could do this now is to upgrade my MC (currently using MC5.5) and use AMA to create a sequence that I could output to the DVD burner with timecode. However, I'm not quite ready to upgrade yet and this still has real time suckiness to it.
Can anyone suggest to me a workflow that would allow me to create some kind of lower res preview file for the client that is faster? Is there a third party software that can deal with this?