[Ian Cook]

If you are importing into an editor and have all the card metadata (BPAV folder with all contents intact) the files should get joined automatically. Avid, FCP and Premiere all support importing spanned files as single clips.

Neither Content Browser nor the new Catalyst Browse application will join spanned files unless you rewrap to an .mov (Content Browser only) or transcode to another format.

[Ian Cook]

sorry, an update to the site is pending. we changed the firmware installer to remove the start version requirement. you can now safely update an EX3 from 1.0 or higher. i have the firmware on an FTP; please download from there. ftp://pmw-ex3:sony@65.196.27.198

[Ian Cook]

Use our Content Browser or Catalyst Browse app..

[Ian Cook]

https://www.sony.com/xdcam-downloads

you can go straight to the latest version.

[Ian Cook]

I can’t post a date yet but it is coming very soon. I’ll have another update shortly. The support will come in the form aof a pro apps update from Apple and a new LT2 plugin from us. Workflow will not change from what we do now with XDCAM and XAVC-intra .mxf files.

[Ian Cook]

Browse and (when it is release) Prepare

[Ian Cook]

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/software_for_sony_equipment

XAVC-Long support is coming, currently all the XAVC-intra codecs are supported.

[Ian Cook]

Hi Craig,

All the professional XAVC intra codecs are natively supported in FCP X. You still need our plugin to get the .mxfs recognized but once they are you have the option to transcode or rewrap upon import. Basically if you leave “create optimized media” de-selected FCP will rewrap the XAVC file to an .mov.

[Ian Cook]

You need to install Content Browser then set the Share–>’Open With’ action to ‘Content Browser Exporter’.

Our export plugin simply takes the multichannel QT file and wraps it as an .mxf. Getting multitrack QTs out of FCP X is a bit of a process, however. You need to create new audio roles for each track, then assign those roles to the audio tracks, then map them to output tracks in the Export dialog. XDCAM 50 Mb/HD422 exports must have 8 channels of 24 bit audio. EX export (35 Mb .mp4-wrapped XDCAM) is regrettably not working at present as it is all but impossible to get 16 bit audio out of FCP X (even if you run it through Compressor the channel structure is incorrect). I am working on getting this fixed.

[Ian Cook]

Re codecs, ProRes will always perform a bit better than MPEG on an FCP timeline. It’s an I-frame Apple codec. It also goes up to 12 bit 4444. If you start with XDCAM you might transcode to ProRes for performance reasons, not for any bump in picture quality. Whether the file looks marginally better when transcoded to PR can be debated but for the most part you are taking the same picture information and re-emcoding it. You can’t make up color and luminance that weren’t there to begin with.