Michael –
Those are good questions. I just started here and am not really familiar with the Avid workflow here (used to FCP). We’re using the XDCAM HD discs, and the material coming from the SXS cards is being imported to AVID and transcoded to an MXF format (I think). I was originally thinking of a drag and drop to the XDCAM from the SXS card, but it would make more sense to put the MXF format to the disc since that’s what would be used in the future if it had to be unarchived and used on the AVID.