XDCam EX

My NLE of choice is Sony Vegas Pro 9.0e, so when a potential client asked if I could edit some material shot on a Sony HDCAM EX3, I said yes. Unfortunately only the second (smaller) of the two files of the spanned clip would import into Vegas or even Sony XDCAM EX ClipBrowser 2.6 (and even MediaInfo came up with nothing), so I told the potential client that one of his files must be corrupt and passed on the job.

I was subsequently surprised to find that the whole spanned clip imported quite happily into Final Cut Pro using PDZKP1 XDCAM Transfer on a Mac.

So why does Sony's own NLE and browser software on a PC reject what can be seemingly effortlessly imported into the opposition's software on a Mac?