Firstly, my fastest computer which is an older 2.4gh Quad core machine won’t let me edit the mov files straight from the camera in real time. It does play them, but any complex edits will cause dropped fropped frames.

Being able to covert my files to 25P is another reason. Television in Austalia is PAL and some artists I’ve done videos for get them played on tv. That’s something you can’t do with Neoscene though.

I also like having a high quality format I can render my final videos to. The h264 mov format would be a bit lossy.

First Light, the program that comes with Neo HD is another reason. It enables a RAW style workflow much like what you can do with Red camera footage. So you can adjust all the colours, white balance, the exposure and other settings of the actual video files as meta data. All settings are non-destructive, but those settings will remain whatever program you load the files into. Essentially someone could be colouring the video files on one computer using First Light and someone else could be editing those files on another networked computer, and the colour of those files will update automatically in the edit as the other person colours them. The colour changes won’t affect performance either. I’ve used it to colour a few videos, but not this one.

Another thing, Cineform converts the files to 10 bit 4:2:2 colour space. The files straight from the camera are only 8 bit 4:2:0. The difference won’t be that visible, but helps when colour grading and any chromakey work.

Essentially it’s just more professional and reliable format to work with, and I’ve never had any real issues with it. Hope this answers your question!