When Sony XAVC XML files support?

[kkamil]

When Adobe plans to finally implement support for XML files from Sony's XAVC?

It's 6 years after Sony F5/55 release and 4 years after FS7 release. Those cameras are one of the most popular and widely used everywhere. Yet each and every time when importing files I get an error as seen on a screenshot.

COME ON ADOBE, YOU CAN DO IT!!!

[Ann Bens]

Premiere does support xml but you dont import them into your project, hence the error message.

[Ann Bens]

Copy entire card to hdd and ingest via Media Browser. You wont see the xml files.

[Meg The Dog]

Those files are not needed by Premiere Pro. They contain metadata about the clip that Premiere Pro does not use.

Is there a reason you need that information imported?

If you navigate to the Clip folder, select it and then import it, Premiere will see the .mxf flies - which are the clips, and the .xml files which are the unnecessary metadata. It will then import the clips only and report not importing the xml files.

Other edit systems may use the XML files that are associated with the clip.

MtD

[kkamil]

Error while importing is not my main concern (which is annoying) but I refer to full support of XAVC files. By full support I mean metadata is read from either mxf or xml files - doesn't matter, with correct EI (Exposure Index) and all the other info. We know Adobe can do it because files from Arri Alexa have full support.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi Kkamil,

Kindly make your issue known to our developers here: Premiere Pro: Hot (2553 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Sorry for your frustration.

Thanks,
Kevin

[jeroenb38531111]

It's about time to fix this - mainly because I am tired of explaining why my recordings are overexposed

Kind regards,

Jeroen

[excited_Genie16B8]

metadata is read from either mxf or xml files - doesn't matter, with correct EI (Exposure Index) and all the other info.

That doesn't make sense.  Exposure is baked into those files.  They're not RAW, there's no metadata that controls exposure.

[jeroenb38531111]

When we open the same files in the Sony RAW viewer, we automatically get a correction of the EI value.

We work with a fixed ISO value in Sony's Cine mode. We will consciously overexposure our sensor (optimum S/N ratio) - the correction is your EI value. If this is not read by your editing software, w'll see overexposed images. With the EI value you can see the correct exposure.

[excited_Genie16B8]

I'm not familiar with that software, so I can't explain what you're seeing.  But XAVC has the ISO value baked in.  Any changes you make to 'exposure' after the fact will be 'destructive'.  XAVC isn't RAW.

In other words, you could probably make the same changes using the Exposure slider in Lumetri.

[jeroenb38531111]

With a Sony camera, F5, FS7 or even a Fs5 you are able to record in a wide gamut curve. In these setup you work with a lut (look up table) inside the camera. But this lut is not recorded.

The recording happens with a EI value not ISO value. The ISO is a fixed setting in this recording mode. But you need your EI-value that is been logged in the metadata to see the correct exposure value. So if premiere could read out this metadata, EI-value and bring it to the exposure value in lumetri you would fix a problem of many editors!

[excited_Genie16B8]

Ste 2C below will solve this for you.

Unofficial Premiere Pro Troubleshooting Guide