XDCAM for Windows Adobe Premiere

[Mark Palmos]

Hi Mark,
best to leave prores and any other conversion out the picture unless you really HAVE to.
PP can use the files natively, unlike FCP… so no need to degenerate the files by re-compressing.
I am not familiar with how it would work with CS4, but have just moved to PP 5.5 and am running the 30 day trial, importing xdcamex footage no probs.
Mark.

[Mpigott]

I see the browser picture you posted, but nothing pops up when i connect the XDCAM via firewire at all. You’d expect it to pop up
on Windows My Computer as a drive right? This does not happen.

I am wondering why the XDCAM connects to the Mac no problem, but are
i7 Windows machine does not see the connection. I think this is the
first problem

[Nick Owens]

Hey Mark,

Did you ever ending up finding a good (free or cheap) solution for this? I just switched from using a Mac Pro to a PC and none of my old projects that use that XDcam Mac Quicktime wrapper will work correctly. Thanks for any info you can provide.

Or anyone else find a solution besides that 100+ calibrated codec?

[Ian Cook]

I’m pretty sure you will need the Calibrated decoder. It’s a quality product and well worth it. For the non-MOV wrapped files you can bring those in natively.

[Nick Owens]

It’s starting to look that way. Someone in the Adobe forums had mentioned that they have the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Windows and that has worked for them but I’m not sure it’s the same scenario.
I am going to give Adobe a call as well and see if they have any solutions.
Have you used the calibrated codec in this way? Thanks for the response.

[Mpigott]

The problem is, if I connect the XDCAM camera to the PC via the firewire connection.
It never mounts and is never seen by the PC. So therefore, there is no way of looking at
the directory structure.

Maybe it is a firewire problem, I know FAM is set on the Cinalta camera. F350 I believe.

[Ian Cook]

Check the menu and make sure i.LINK mode is set to FAM (File Access Mode) and not AVC (for tape-style playback and capture). Also make sure you have the latest FAM driver installed.

[Mpigott]

The F-350 is set to FAM. I never knew you needed a driver for the PC for FAM, the Mac has these built in. This might be part of the concern. Thanks

[Mpigott]

Ahhhh..I never knew you needed a driver on the PC, the mac does not need one.

[Ian Cook]

The driver is not built in to any operating system. You will always need a driver. The camera may go into PC Remote without it but you will never see the correct file system. Both drivers are at https://www.sony.com/xdcam-downloads under Applications Plugins and Drivers–> ‘SxS and i.LINK FAM drivers’