[Carl Marxer]

Don’t stop it. It takes that long to transfer. I think it is just Sony trying to keep people from copying their feature movies.
Also, remember that my problems were because I was using the SSD hard drive.
But if you hook up the drive and edit with Premiere CS 5.5, everything works wonderfully. I edit straight from the drive, and only render out the final edit (no copying the footage). I make BluRay discs with the link to Encore DVD. The drive works just fine with that work flow. and my 2 hour show renders to BluRay in about 4.5 hours. Really weird, but I am happy it does not take days. This workflow will not work with CS4.

[Carl Marxer]

I have had much trouble working with the memory unit from this camera, the HXR-FMU128. The camera is in Atlanta, and I am in NYC. The client sends me the memory unit to edit. I must 1st say, that we are editing 2 hour stage shows (5 of them), so apparently from reading this thread, that makes a big difference. Copying the footage via USB to the internal takes forever (as in days). Log and Transfer does not work for FCP v7 with the memory unit. It is not recognized by my FCP log and transfer. I tried iMovie, and the footage was very choppy with lots of dropped frames. Premiere CS 4 did not work, either. I was finally able to transcode the footage using Toast 11. It was taking 18 hours per 2 hour program, and the footage looked soft when transcoded to Pro Res 422.
I was thinking that part of the problem was that the MPEG 4 HD footage was too compliant to Blu-Ray specs. I have edited the AVC footage from Panasonic cameras with FCP with no problems. The Sony footage is different, even though it is AVC. I have a Sony Blu Ray player, that has a USB connection. I tried connecting the memory unit to the Blu Ray player, and plugged the memory unit into the Blu Ray player and it works really well. I was able to use the remote to navigate through the footage.
So I hooked the HDMI out to my Black Magic intensity card, and was able to digitize the footage into FCP. Really weird to use the Blu Ray player to digitize the footage (Don’t tell Sony or they will probably do something to make it not work anymore.)
I believe the problems are rooted in Sony’s desire to control copy right on its Sony Pictures films. If you are doing long form productions, well then you must be bootlegging films, right? So they intentionally make it so it won’t work very well. It is an extreme conflict of interest for Sony to sell equipment AND be in the production business.