Yeah, I’m not a fan either. Unfortunately, the Nanoflash (which records XDcam) was the only portable option for external recording that we could find. Now, the AJA Ki Pro Mini is coming out (which records to the prores family). I’ll likely push for the switch. Knowing that we could edit natively in the XDcam, I wanted to try it. Now I know that for anything other than cutting I should transcode. If anyone has a solid explanation as to why AE would “read” the XDcam footage differently than Color, I’d love to be enlightened.
Thanks for the conversation,
Braden