Need Help:How can I Convert SxS HD to XDCAM SD?

[William Griffin]

Hello all...

I have a shoot coming up in a few weeks and the clients needs me to shoot 16x9 SD xdcam...so correct me if I am wrong, as I want to do this:

Shoot the news conference as a normal XDCAM EX 16x9 HD video....then take the SXS card and import it to the clip browser and then export using "MXF for XDCAM DVCAM" to a hard drive, then give the hard drive to the editor.

If I do this way...will it work?

Also, the clients uses Sony Vegas, v7 and might upgrade to V9..so the other question is:

if they have Vegas version 9..can they convert the files from HD to SD 16x9 inside the program?
many thanks....