[Gregory Renner]

Hi Tim,

Yeah, I thought that it could be an issue with the Matrox, so I tried opening a new project and creating a non-Matrox sequence, but I still had the same problem. However, if it really is a Matrox problem simply creating a non-Matrox sequence may not be enough to take the Matrox out of the picture entirely. Maybe it’s still doing something in the background that’s causing it.

That would be a bummer if it is the Matrox, as they’ve designed it with the XDCAM EX format in mind (along with other formats of course).

Is anyone else out there using a Matrox with PP CS4 to edit XDCAM EX footage?

[Gregory Renner]

Hey Jeff,

I’m actually not using the Clip Browser to copy the files over. When I built the workstation I actually built it with this workflow in mind, so I put an express card slot into the computer. I just pop the SxS cards in that, open it up by browsing from “Computer” and copy the whole BPAV folder onto my NTFS formatted (Raid 5) data drive. (Specifically, into the specific folder for the project the footage is for). The I use the PP Media Browser to import the footage from there into my project’s bin.

[Gregory Renner]

Thanks for responding Aaron. The 4GB size limit isn’t imposed by my computer’s hard drive, it’s actually a limitation of the camera’s recording method.

The camera records onto Sony proprietary SxS flash-based cards which have the limit. So if you shoot something thats, say 20 minutes long and the size of that file would be (for argument’s sake) 6GB, there won’t be 1 6GB MP4 on the SxS card you recorded to, there will be one roughly 4GB MP4 file, and one roughly 2GB MP4 file.

It creates metadata files that tell it that these clips go together, so when you watch the clip on the camera or with Sony’s Clip Browser software it appears as one continuous clip.

When I use my Media Browser in Adobe Premiere to view clips in XDCAM EX format it will see these as just one single clip and will show me the correct duration, but when I drag it over into my bin, only the first 13:40:00 or so makes it (which I believe is just the first MP4 in the series.)