Re: EX3 files not working in final cut

[Mike Neders] "When reviewing these most recent files on the camera during shooting, the quality was fantastic"

Which would then point with a workflow or settings issue in post. The mp4 on her computer is the very same thing she saw in the camera. Only a transcode or settings issue can result in degradation.

[Mike Neders] "but the thinking is some drivers from sony or software that works in conjunction with final cut to get the files looking good is missing."

This doesn't make any sense to me at all. Drivers don't change the file. The EX codec is installed with Final Cut Pro and doesn't have any impact on the quality.

[Mike Neders] "Also, many have warned when you go PC to Mac and back it creates issue on occasion."

None whatsoever on file quality. If you don't follow the proper workflow you can get "invisible" files in the folder structure and your post points to such possible oddity but it has no impact on the file. She's using the .mp4 as created by the camera. I've input files into a Windows XP PentiumD and moved them to a MacPro on my network and it's entirely harmless. Even if the folder structure where to somehow become botched, there's no harm to the .mp4 files at all.

[Mike Neders] "On the info I posted in reference to the specs of the files, do they look correct?"

Nope. Not to me. You've got some odd files there. That would have no impact on the .mp4 though at all.

I've also used the CalibratedSoftware EX plugin as well and there's no impact on the .mp4. Sony's wouldn't either.

I'd also add the ONLY way to confirm quality of the recording is on a broadcast monitor or the best possible calibrated monitor you can get, short of that. You can't judge the detail with the same accuracy and confidence using an uncalibrated camera LCD. Since Sony's EX LCD isn't quite the same as other LCDs the only way to judge what reality "might" be is having first hand experience with the LCD and then seeing the resultant file on a Proper monitor. At that point one has the experience to know how the LCD is impacting one's perception. In fact the very first time I did a test shoot with my EX in December 2007 and looking at the results on different monitors, after the shoot, did I realize how different that LCD was from what I had come to expect from other cameras I've used.