The new Apple Pro-Res light is much more workable than the original Pro-Res, it's what I am now encoding all my Canon Mark II 5D footage to for editing.

Hey Chris I took your advice and joined the user group. Now I need a little help. Our company purchased a new Mac with the Processor being two 2.26 Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon, and Memory being 12 GB 1066 Mhz DDR3, with three Internal Hard Drives of 1 TB each, and the Mac Hard Drive containing all the system stuff.
Anyway we did so because we are doing a lot more in HD. I thought this thing would fly through HD material but as I'm working with it this is what I'm running into. In Motion when I'm working in HD it just crawls along and doesn't play back in real time. Actually you could say it's "REAL SLOW TIME".
And in Final Cut when I'm rendering HD video it takes quite a bit of time. Especially when I'm rendering an HD clip I've done in Motion.
What do I need to do to take advantage of the processing and memory power this new Mac has???

What codec are you editing in? HDV codec? How are you ingesting the footage into Final Cut Pro. Codecs, especially HDV codecs can be taxing to Final Cut Pro. And 2.26 GHZ is on the lower end of the power scale when it comes to Apple's Mac Pro line up.

The codec I've been using for this particular project is Broadcast HD 1080i60. And then getting it into Final Cut I've been saving the motion file, importing that file into my Final Cut Project and then rendering the motion file on the Final Cut timeline. Is there a better way to go about this?

Here is an article that might help:

www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/when_to_stay_native.html