I have an PMW-F3 now but as I recall from the EX1, I believe you can add and edit the files natively in Vegas. Not sure if that's what you were asking or just about multiple clips.

About multiple clips, one thing I wish I would have realized earlier with both cameras though and didn't figure out till recently: I hated having to drill into the BVAP folders, dig though the file structure and grab the individual MP4's buried in the BVAP folder. It was time consuming and I always ran the risk of skipping one or two clips in the process as sometimes it was a whole lot of files. What I do now is find the main BPAV folder in Windows Explorer and use the "Search" box in the top right, just type *mp4 (that's asterisk mp4) and hit enter, then just drag and drop them all from the search results onto the timeline. I ctrl+A to select all of them, drag to the timeline, and depending on the project choose either "Add across time" or "Add across tracks"

- Ray
Underground Planet

If I understand your question correctly the answer is NO.

The camera creates a separate file every time you stop and restart recording. So if you shoot a travel video for example you could end up with a hundred or more separate files with absolutely no way to join them into one file on the timeline. Kind of annoying.

Also beware that I have run into a few occasions whereby I dragged 60 files to the timeline and ended up with very small (but noticeable) spaces between some of them. I had to spread the timeline out and hunt them down to fix it.

John

Agree with John.
Not only that but if you have clips that span cards Vegas will make a mess of joining them.
Also if you simply drag clips that span folders in the one BPAV folder directly onto the T/L you end up with multiple events for the one clip and that doesn't make for a pleasant editing experience.

Bob.

Having tried various ways, for an easy life I routinely use Sony Clip Browser (2.6) to re-wrap the BPAV to MXF (like you didn't want to). No complications then about single-shot recordings that give multi-mp4 either on same media or spanned. Also I found on Avid 6 it would Import from the same MXF (which, unlike AMA, could not handle BPAV directly). So MXF I think is well worth it.