+10 TotalCode - this is the app to have. Although SCS has made some idle promises about this delivery thru VegasPro - I would not hold my breath - seems they have more hurdle to do so than the market may bear. Stick with Total Code if you can.

Sony released an update to Catalyst Browse and it seems to do batch transcoding now.

I know for a lot of you have had issues decoding and converting the Sony XAVC-L 422 10-bit long GOP that comes with the X70 and some of the other PXW cameras. Well there is a bit of light on the horizon.

I have been dealing with a guy named David on the Acrovid support team. Acrovid are the authors of FootageStudio4K. I sent him an XAVC-L clip a while back. The upshot is that he has got back to me with a download link for a trial version of FootageStudio4K that actually handles this codec beautifully. It can batch convert to many different codecs / wrappers etc, including many 'professional' codecs. This really opens up a new avenue for those of us stuck with nothing decent to decode these files.

Early days so far but I am having great success in converting these XAVC-L clips to ProRes. What I see I like. Unlike some ProRes conversions FootageStudio4K appears to be maintaining the correct IRE and gamma levels of the original source footage.

This is the gist of David's reply to me:

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"I just uploaded a new update with support for Sony XAVC format, your sample file is processed fine, when processing you can also remove the empty audio tracks by unchecking them in the audio tab or in the trimming dialog.

http://acrovid.com/footagestudio.htm

Please note that actual version implements most filters in 8 bits, so if both input and output videos are in 10-bit, the video is converted to 8 bits for processing. The 16 bits conversions actually implemented are the direct transcoding, and video resample, this is, if you activate the video resample and both input and output videos are in 10-bit, then the resampling is done in 16 bits keeping all the quality.

We are developing the full 16 bit processing version and I think will be ready in about 1 month, and of course it will be a free update for registered users."

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$130 US Dollars

A small price to pay if you are using it professionally.

For me it offers far more in many ways than Sony's Catalyst Prepare at $200. When I color correct I will do it in the NLE or Resolve not while importing footage. Re the importing and transcoding I find FootageStudio a lot quicker than either Browse or Prepare. Added to which it can convert to ProRes if needed on Windows which neither of the Sony packages can do.

One of the reasons I haven't purchased the X70 yet. Embarrassing to have Sony Software that doesn't support Sony cameras codecs. Does Premier support XAVC?

Just checked. It supports XAVC. Bummer.

yet another option - http://www.divergentmedia.com/editready -- transcoding Sony XAVC-L $50

Great for the Mac boys but sadly no good for Vegas on PC

CY