The issue is that PP is recognizing these clips as audio only. There's even an audio icon on the clip when I click on it in PP. But if I open the same clips using the Sony XDCAM Browser, I can see the video just fine. This is really bizzarre.

I tried having the XDCAM browser export MXFs thinking there was a problem in the file structure from the EX3, but that didn't work either. Still these clips are brought into PP with no video.

I just can't figure what's going on. I don't see any indexing going on.

PP recognizes the file as XDCAM-EX. Files of Type is set to 'All Supported Files'. If I go into the Finder and navigate to the BPAV folder and find the target files manually, they are MP4s.

There isn't an option for just XDCAM-EX Movie. Closest I have is XDCAM-HD 422 Movie. I chose that, but didn't have any affect. These files still show up only with audio. I also can only put them into the audio timeline.

I made a screen grab that might help...

I've been doing some more research on this and looks like what's going on is that I don't have the MainConcept codec pack installed and that's why I can't work with XDCAM natively (could that be? doesn't make sense if PP has facilites for that built in).

So I installed the demo of the Main Concept conversion pack for Mac. I still couldn't bring in native XDCAM into PP (why??). So I had to use the XDCAM transfer software from Sony. But because I have a demo of the conversion pack, I get a watermark on the video. At least there's video in the clips now. So I either have to spend for the full version of MC Codecs - really irritating as that was one of the reasons I got PP in the first place.

In the end this looks like a codec issue. If I'm missing codecs from PP CS5.5 how do I get those from the web?