If the media is still on the SD card, don't navigate to a subfolder to feed the Vegas Device Explorer but to the SD card itself as root folder.

I'll have to find the software and load it up. I didn't install it when I got it because I didn't think it was necessary. It's sony to sony. I also tried it using Sony's "Content Management Utility". It also cannot locate or recognize the files, which are stored in "E:\PRIVATE\M4ROOT\CLIP" as .mp4 files. I'm using Vegas 13.

I didn't initially navigate to the folder. I let Device Explorer do its thing. When it didn't load them I tried to point it and it still would not recognize the files. The only way to see them right now is in Window file manager or explorer.

If you copied it from the SD card it seems you didn't preserve the complete original folder structure which is essential for using the Device Explorer.

The SD card is actually still in the reader. That's where Vegas is directed. I just copied it manually when Device Explorer failed.

The Vegas Device Explorer only works for AVCHD, it never worked for anything else including XAVC-S.

It works fine here for X-AVC (recorded by the Z100, F55 or other cameras).

I'll try and load the camera software and see if that works. It's actually not a BIG deal because I can always just copy and paste where I want just like any other file. So far for this shoot, the files haven't been more than 5 minutes long. It may become a situation when I have longer files that the camera breaks up into multiple files and I have to concatenate, I may drop a frame or 2.

It may become a situation when I have longer files that the camera breaks up into multiple files and I have to concatenate, I may drop a frame or 2.

This should not happen with XAVC-S (MP4) files if your SD-card is formatted to exFAT, whitch is the default for cards with a size above 32GB.

Peter,
Are you saying that the XAVC-S format doesn't break apart large files? That's great if so. How about DV files? Are AVCHD files the only ones that break up? If that's the case...then it's really just a matter of "copying" all other files (besides AVCHD) instead of actually "Importing" them?

Are you saying that the XAVC-S format doesn't break apart large files?

Yes if you are recording on exFAT formatted SD-cards, that allow for file sized above 2GB. I think there is no change for DV and AVCHD files. I did not use them for a long time. When I last used these, I had not jet exFAT formatted cards.