Metadata, P2CMS, P2Log Pro, LogAndTransfer, Raylight and You. A journey into the unseen.

I am venturing into the world of metadata in order to maximize information and efficiency on set and back at the studio. I need to talk this out with someone that knows all of these programs to make sure I am understanding all of this correctly and perhaps offer some suggestions as to what I need to buy. Or perhaps what we really need to do is yell at Apple (in a very tender and gentle voice) and tell them to just support MXF metadata natively. Anyway, here goes:

P2CMS Pros:
-It handles AVC-Intra (as soon as 1.2 gets posted)
-Verifies copies (don't need to make disk images with OSX)
-Color codes clips to show you they have been ingested.
-No saving or altering of the MXF files, it simply tracks all of that data and saves it to the cards.
-Can move the MXF files to another machine for later editing back at the studio without much rigormorole.
-F-R-E-E-!-!-!

P2CMS Cons:
-No offense Panasonic, thanks for free, but that interface leaves a bit to be desired. I cannot rename multiple clips at once (for instance if I have 40 clips of the same interview, all i want to do with a click or two is name those clips JoeBlow_01 - JoeBlow_40). Or if I have multiple takes of a scene, I can't just rename those in one fell swoop Scene101_Take1-Scene101_Take10. All the clicking will make mince meat of my wrist within hours.
-The manual is tough to translate sometimes, even from the English.
-No support in case something goes wrong.
-I need raylight in order to show the UserClipName Metadata in FCP (not a shortcoming of P2CMS, just of the workflow in general)



Raylight Pros:
-Quick, easy, cheap.
-Gives FCP what it really should have natively.
-No rewrapping of Quicktimes

Raylight Cons:
-Moving project form the shoot drive to the edit drive will be problematic. You would have to have raylight on both the field computer and the edit computer which seems kind of pointless to me or perhaps I am thinking about this all wrong.
-No AVCIntra support (?)

P2Log Pro Pros:
-Robust logging interface. Can rename multiple clips at once.
-Will rewrap the MXFs for you
-XML interface for FCP to send the metadata to FCP
-Lots of access to all the metadata in a concise package

P2LogPro Cons:
-Still need to rewrap the MXF files
-If you don't want to rewrap, you still need Raylight. Fine, but moving project around is not easy.
-Most expensive (but not cost prohibitive)
-AVC Intra support or lack there of (?)


Log and transfer Pros:
-Interfaces directly with FCP
-no other software needed besides drivers
-All p2 formats supported
-FCP project tracks data so moving projects to different computers is a snap

Log and transfer cons:
-Clunky naming interface (again, one clip at a time)
-Have to rewrap to QT so it doubles the media size requirements
-Can't access pre-named metadata, have to remake it to fit into FCPs database



OK, there's the short of the long of it. So, what am I missing?

What do you guys do and how does it help you? What would you buy?

Thanks in advance.

Jeremy