import xavchd 4K files from sony AX100

I am importing 4K video shot with my AX100 routinely. More info, please, including type of card reader in use.

If shooting 4K, I point FCPX to the clips (.mp4) found in the folder on the card named Private.

Ernie

Would you be willing to share one of your original 4K media files? If you would and could upload a short clip to WeTransfer or MediaFire or somewhat you prefer I'd very much appreciate it. If you want to email me you can click on my name for an eddress.

I, too, have had no problems importing 4K clips from my Sony FDR-AX100 into Final Cut Pro 10.1.. I use the following workflow. I take the SD card out of my camera, insert it into a Lexar USB 3.0 card reader, open the Sony PlayMemories software and import the clips to my Pegasus2 R6 hard disk raid. I then eject the card, close PlayMemories, open FCP X, and import the files direclty from the Pegasus2 R6 array without moving the files. I have never had any problems following this workflow. I do not attempt to import the files directly off the SD card from within FCP X.

Tom

I too have the Sony FDR-AX100 camera. I just open the SD card and move (drag and drop) the video files to a folder onto my second drive. I have no problems importing those video files into FCP 10.1.1... Best bet if your working with 4k videos is to also convert the video files to the proxy format for editing.

No need to use Sony PlayMemories to import the video video files.

Compressor 4.x won't convert these Sony video files to ProRes.

I go the PlayMemories route for importing because it gives me a convenient means of previewing the clips in one interface and eliminating those clips I don't want to keep. The XVAC-S codec is simply high profile long-GOP, and my late 2013 Mac Pro has no problems playing back the clips in real time with no dropped frames even with effects and transitons in the timeline. Converting the files to proxy files would be a waste of time and disk space for me. If your Mac is capable of ediitng h.264 files, then it should have no trouble with XVAC-S.

I also was having the "Private" camera file issue when trying to read the clips via a USB Card Reader. Sony PlayMemories could read and import that file and once imported by PlayMemories, FCP X could read them. I also had the same issue when trying to read the video directly from the AX100. It turns out that I had done a software update of my AX100 which required that I set the USB mode to Mass Storage (See Setup, USB Connect Setting). When USB Mode is set to Mass Storage or Auto, Private is all that I seeing as the file name of the videos when attaching the AX100 directly.

Solution: Set USB mode to MTP and FCP X will see the individual clips and allow for them to be imported directly from the AX100 camera.

I am not sure I have a problem, Tom. Just bought the Sony a7s ii and before a shoot I want to test importing the footage onto my hard drive. I have successfully imported files that I recorded in XAVCS 4k onto both my hard drive by inserting the SD card into my Mac Book Pro and from the camera via the MTP mode into FCPX. All good. But they are all mp4 files. Are these 4k files or do I have to do something else to make them 4k?

If you shot 4K they're 4K.