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Martin Waring
March 2, 2015 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

Thats’s exactly what I’ve been thinking of doing too. I’d love to see a side by side comparison of the two codecs or get your thoughts on whether the XAVC-I codec is worth the extra investment in cards.
Martin Waring
March 2, 2015 at 9:46 am in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

I can’t answer your question as I’ve not used an SxS card yet but I’d like to know if you think using an SxS card (as opposed to an SDXC card) is worth the additional cost. That is, is using the XAVC-I codec significantly better than using the XAVC-L codec – so much so as to justify the price difference in getting SxS cards for it?
Martin Waring
November 17, 2014 at 5:39 pm in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

I’m on my phone and I don’t have access to the manual but I’m pretty sure that with an SDHC card all you can do is AVCHD. You need SDXC cards to use some of the other codecs. Even then you can’t do the top one but you can record all the flavours of XAVC L. I’ve been recording the top XAVC L codec to SDXC cards. My problem was then how to get the footage into FCPX on my Mac but I’ve solved it using Catalyst Browse.
If only Sony’s documentation was as good as their equipment. I feel like a YouTube review/ tutorial might be handy. I might make one.
Martin Waring
October 14, 2014 at 9:48 am in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

I’ve just tried the Sony ‘Catalyst Browse’ tool and that does let me read the footage shot in XAVC L on my PXW X160 and lets me transcode it into Prores which can then be imported into FCPX.

So at least there is a work around until the FCPX plugin gets sorted.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/catalystbrowse
Martin Waring
October 13, 2014 at 9:40 am in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

Yes. I am indeed using PDZK-LT2 but it currently doesn’t support the XAVC L codec. I’ve been told that support is coming soon (no timescales quoted) and that it is also dependant on a change within FCPX.
Martin Waring
October 9, 2014 at 9:20 pm in reply to: Importing from the PXW X160 into FCPX using SDXC cards

Thats a pity. I decided that I can very easily live without Wifi and without remote control by smart phone. It all seems a bit too gimmicky to me. I tried the smart phone control out on my FDR AX100 and it sort of works but I wouldn’t want to rely on it working.

The story seems to be that support for the XAVC L codec in FCPX is coming soon but is dependant on both a change to the XDCAM plugin from Sony and to FCPX from Apple.

Meanwhile I’ve tested AVCHD on the PXW X160 and no problems importing from the card to FCPX. I’ve also tested MPEG HD422 writing to SDXC card and importing to FCPX and that works too. The card I’m using is a Sandisk Extreme Pro SDXC card rated at 95 MBPS, but that might be overkill.
Martin Waring
October 8, 2014 at 2:48 pm in reply to: Sony XDCAM, XAVC flavors and FCPX compatibility?

OK. Thanks for the quick response.
Martin Waring
October 8, 2014 at 11:56 am in reply to: Sony XDCAM, XAVC flavors and FCPX compatibility?

Ahh. Just posted a question about getting my XAVC L footage off my new PXW X160 into FCPX from SDXC cards. Maybe this answers my question if support for XAVC L is not there yet.

Any idea on timescales?
When the support comes will it be an update to the existing XDCAM plugin that will enable me to read my clips from an SDXC card?