My post came out a bit snipey - <sorry!>

It's all the same codec, and with the HM100 it makes sense to shoot in the format that best suits the recipient or editor. With the HM700, the decision is colored by whether you dropped the extra $500 on the sxs block, and if you want to deal with the extra bulk of carrying it.

Well, I heard back from the media player company I contacted... bad news:

"None of them played. While we do support the .MOV and .MP4 file containers;
the problem is the codec. It's one of those weird spin-off variants from
MPEG-2 which is always tough to find players to support. Ours supports the
standard MPEG-2 but not this XDCAM EX format."

Many thanks for taking the trouble to find out.

Don Smith - NewsVideo.com

"Ki Pro is priced at $3995 US MSRP"

Maybe not quite the solution that Donald was looking for.

The Ki Pro is beautiful, but no, not the solution I'm looking for. When the headline reads that it works with the HM700 it means that you can mount it under the camera in its exoskeleton and connect the HM700 to it by means of HD SDI, which delivers full 4-2-2 video to the Ki Pro, and the Ki Pro in return converts that signal to Apple ProRes 422 and stores it on its removable hard drive. You then take that hard drive to the edit room. So, no, I can't use the Ki Pro to feed my SD cards in an uplink truck, and there's no benefit (that I can see) in using it to take video to an edit room unless you are in need of 4-2-2 video for, say, keying.

In shorter words, whether I present my video as files on a card or files on a removable hard drive, I still have the feed problem.

Still, someday I would like to have the Ki Pro, but at the moment I can't justify its cost.