[Dave Neith] "s there any sort of lossless export setting that could be brought back into Final Cut in the future for a re-edit or re-encode?? "
I'll go further than Craig - why bother encoding at all. Use the Media manager to make a copy of all that footage into a new project on the HD that you have. Any changes, open the project, boom, fix (or send to compressor)
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