Ricky, to cut a long story short - go out now & buy an SD card reader.


Just did a test & if you plug the camera directly into the mac it mounts 3 drives.....

1 is called 'PMHOME' & seems to contain license data that may be related to the 4k upgrade.
The 2 other drives are called 'untitled' & 'untitled 1' and only show the first XAVC video file on the card.

So basically I have the same problem. HOWEVER........ If I use an SD card reader - everything works fine & as it should with multiple files!

Probably doesn't matter, but my SDXC card has read and write permissions.

Yes, get a card reader - USB 3 is going to be miles faster than the camera anyway I think.

For those having success with a card reader have any tried using the built in card slot on a Mac laptop?
Somewhere else someone posted they used the card slot and had to manually move the XDROOT folder to the same root level as PRIVATE and then it worked.

Ricky, to cut a long story short - go out now & buy an SD card reader.


Just did a test & if you plug the camera directly into the mac it mounts 3 drives.....

1 is called 'PMHOME' & seems to contain license data that may be related to the 4k upgrade.
The 2 other drives are called 'untitled' & 'untitled 1' and only show the first XAVC video file on the card.

So basically I have the same problem. HOWEVER........ If I use an SD card reader - everything works fine & as it should with multiple files!

Thank you for the test, Paul! And thanks again David for all your info as well.

For now, I will just copy the contents of the mounted cards to my hard drive. But will invest in an SD card reader.

Thanks again.

Interestingly, I see different things if I use a card reader versus plugging into the SD slot on the back of my iMac - but both ways work.

Card Reader - In the FCPX import window I see a PRIVATE folder and a private folder. The PRIVATE folder has three files per clip - 1 is a movie icon, 2 is an audio icon, 3 is a still image icon. Importing just the movie file brings in the audio and video flawlessly. The private folder is empty, but viewing it in the Finder it is the top level directory of the card, and encloses all the AVCHD, XDROOT, etc. items.

SD slot on back of iMac - I just see the PRIVATE folder, and it only includes 2 files per clip - the movie file and the still image file - no audio file. But again, the movie file is all that is needed for import. In the Finder all I see is the PRIVATE folder which encloses the AVCHD, XDROOT, etc. - no separate private folder.

Reading the XAVC files works fine for me via the SD card reader in the back of my iMac. I get the same directory configuration as David does. The files can be ingested directly into Final Cut Pro X and can be edited natively. The native files are much smaller than if I transcoded them into ProRes.

I just updated by bug report at Apple with the extra info. While the new Sony firmware has definitely fixed the issues, I think Apple could do something about working with read-only volumes.

Still, extremely pleased that I can finally import the footage natively. Of course I still work with ProRes (the optimized version of the clips).

Could not import with FCPX 10.2.1, just got empty Private folder view with spinning dial thing. Installed the XDCAM plug-in, now ingests and edits just like my X180 XAVC footage. Finally.

Paul