Sony EX shoots XDCAM...that's a format that is more compressed than ProRes...lower data rate. The C100 shoots AVCHD, and that comes in as ProRes. FCP doesn't edit that native. And yes, the file sizes get much larger. 1 min of ProRes 422 is roughly 1GB.
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