[Callie Malan]

Hi Martin,

I recently bought the PXW-X160. I am using the adaptor which was included with my purchase( a Sony SD Card Adaptor for XDCAM Series SDHC/SDXC), along with a SanDisk Extreme Plus 80 MB/s SDHC Class 10 SD card.

I am faced with a huge problem however. The camera does not allow me to record any codec, apart from AVCHD( which is my least prefrible codec), to the SD card. The moment I insert the SD card via the adaptor into the SxS card slot, and error message pops up which reads: ” Unknown Media(A) Please Change “. And when I attempt to format the SD card, an error message is displayed as follows: ” Format Media(A) NG: Cannot Format “. Followed by another error message: ” Unknown Media(A) Please Change “. I have tried out an SxS card, and it allows me to make use of all the other codecs that the camera has to offer. However . . .

I don’t want to buy an SxS card, if I know it is possible to shoot all of the PXW-X160’s codecs on an SD card. And, because SxS cards are extremely expensive. So before I go out to buy an SxS card, please help me understand why this is happening. Could it be because of the brand SD card, or the fact that it is SDHC instead of SDXC? Please help!