XDCAM agiain......

Right here goes!

Working with XDCAM EX for the first time and am being sent the media on a Hard drive to work on tomorrow.

The Footage data has been converted so it can be edited in FCP 6.05 now here-in lies my question...

Do i need the original camera data (the MP4 files and all the rest of it) or can i be sent just the QT versions converted by the sony(?) software? it seems like a huge amount of data to send with the original camera files when i can only work from the converted ones anyway....

Any help and ideas much appreciated as always..........

If you have FCP 6.0.5 the rewrapped files should work just fine.
Those BPAV (with their MP4s) should be archived though. Those are the camera masters and it'll be a lot easier wrapping them into another format if you need to go to another OS or NLE than dealing with the MOVs.