Glad to see your review, and I hope you’re doing well.

I was thinking of buying this camera for a documentary project I’m almost done financing, and I appreciate your thoughts.

To try to answer your questions in brief, you should use Sony’s XDCAM EX Clip Browser which is a browsing and file management utility for XDCAM EX SxS media that allows viewing, transfer, searching, and metadata entry of video clips as well as exporting to MXF files for later import into an editing system. Don’t just copy in the finder to make sure the copy of the files is done correctly. Use Sony XDCAM Transfer to bring the media into Final Cut Pro. Please read over the documentation and experiment with the workflow before doing a mission critical project with this camera, which involves a new camera and a new workflow.

If QuickTime playback of XDCAM EX footage is not smooth, it may be your computer is not fast enough to play the large MPEG images in real time.

The times I’ve shot with the camera and brought media into Final Cut Pro from either cards or copies of cards on the hard drive it has all worked flawlessly, but you really need to walk though the steps carefully and calmly before doing any mission critical shooting and editing with the camera.

But i have a big problem/question: i don’t have right now an intel core duo mac so i can’t use the transfer or put clips in fcp.

What i ask you is: can i storage the footage without using tranfer, just dragging the files into an hdd? Will i have problems when i will import the material in fcp?

Is it normal that what i see clearly and fluidly in camera’s lcd is not fluid in Vlc or QuickTime?

Please, reply me, i start shooting in two days…

Thanks, Marco Penso