On MacBook Pro, used Sony Clip Browser (ClipBrowser) to import footage from a Sony XDCAM-EX to Mac OS HFS+. This machine had MacDrive installed, enabling Windows apps to directly access files on the HFS+ file system. On same machine, under Boot Camp (BootCamp) and Windows 7, ran Sony Vegas NLE. Successfully imported and used footage by both of the following methods:
- Sony Vegas’s Device Explorer [View > Device Explorer].
- This took several minutes to import.
- Importing resulted in copying the [.mp4] file (and other files) to the NTFS partition.
- Direct use of [.mp4] on the HFS+ partition.
- No need to import as such, just constructed waveforms etc.
- This completed in seconds.
- Only downside is that it ewas unable to save the waveform files etc., due to my config of MacDrive (read-only), so it would have to do this every time I opened the project.
- Have yet to try the same thing when MacDrive has config for full read/write access.