[Ben Finkel]

You hit the nail on the head! Premiere and After Effects saw the Pro Res footage as Upper Field First. I changed it to No Fields (Progressive Scan) and although the general noise is still there, the lips and the edge of the shoulder look much better. Thanks!

New Comparison
https://imgur.com/a/9UdEz#0

XF vs Pro Res 2

[Ben Finkel]

I think we may be having different problems. We can only recreate the problem on Windows machines and the problem is definitely cause by the changes being made to the two XML files in the BPAV folder, CUEUP.XML and MEDIAPRO.XML. We can’t figure out why dragging and dropping the BPAV folder to another drive would cause the files to be edited, but something is happening to them as you can see in my post above. You are copying the entire BPAV folder over, not just some files in the folder, right? In our situation, importing in the Sony program called Content Browser, not in Premiere Pro, was able to remedy the situation. It is not a free program, but Sony Catalyst is. I don’t know if that does what you need though.

[Ben Finkel]

I still have the original card, so I did a little experiment and seem to have duplicated your results. Using Finder on a Mac, I transferred the BPAV folder from the card to a folder called Mac on a FAT32 formatted drive. Then on a Windows 7 machine using the file explorer, I did the same thing to a folder called Windows on the same drive. The original card and the Mac transfer are 6,454,921,080 bytes while the Windows transfer is only 6,454,918,310 bytes. On both a Mac and a PC, the original card and the Mac transfer work perfectly fine in Content Browser while the Windows transfer does not. An EX icon is shown for the folder, but no clips appear. It has only happened with footage from a PMW-350 not a PMW-EX3. Why would Windows be changing the files? Below is the content of the XML files. Hopefully someone can chime in with an answer.

[Ben Finkel]

Thanks! That was my problem.