OTHER: XDCAM PDW software driver needed (firewire)

[raulxl1]

Yes, Raul. Why Sony doesn't archive this stuff I have no idea. Well I guess I do. If there is no software to support these cameras and decks, drives etc they must assume people will give up on the hardware. Very often perfectly good cameras and decks.

Well, here you go. Up she goes again. This is the package I uploaded previously. It has everything I ever collected while I was shooting and editing XDCam.

Download it from my Google Drive. I'll leave it up there for a couple of weeks:

All XDCAM Driver Software and info as of Dec 2025.zip

drive.google.com

Good luck!
Chris Young

Hi Chris,

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing the FAM Driver! Couldn't find it anywhere else. Really appreciate you keeping this alive for us XDCAM users.

Cheers,
Raul S

 

[cyvideo]

Hi Chris,

Just wanted to say thanks for sharing the FAM Driver! Couldn't find it anywhere else. Really appreciate you keeping this alive for us XDCAM users.

Cheers,
Raul S

No problems, buddy. I've been in this business too long to throw out software and firmware and end up regretting it. For the last 40 years now it's been keep it, "Just in case?" Hope it solves your needs.

Chris Young

 

[raulxl1]

No problems, buddy. I've been in this business too long to throw out software and firmware and end up regretting it. For the last 40 years now it's been keep it, "Just in case?" Hope it solves your needs.

Chris Young

Thanks a lot.

 

[torgard]

Chris,
I have two PDW-D1 drives, and I had just about given up on getting them to connect, until I found your upload here.
The driver itself seems to have worked! So now they are actually connecting and showing up, in the OS at least. Thanks a ton!

Sadly, they seem to be incompatible with the XDCAM Drive Utility Software that you've shared. Seems to be specifically for PDW-U1 and PDW-U2?
Any chance you have an older version of the utility software laying around somewhere? In the manuals, it is referred to as "PC Utility for PDW-D1".

In any case, thanks a lot for sharing the stuff here! You made my day

 

[cyvideo]

Chris,
I have two PDW-D1 drives, and I had just about given up on getting them to connect, until I found your upload here.
The driver itself seems to have worked! So now they are actually connecting and showing up, in the OS at least. Thanks a ton!

Sadly, they seem to be incompatible with the XDCAM Drive Utility Software that you've shared. Seems to be specifically for PDW-U1 and PDW-U2?
Any chance you have an older version of the utility software laying around somewhere? In the manuals, it is referred to as "PC Utility for PDW-D1".

In any case, thanks a lot for sharing the stuff here! You made my day

Torgard.

Wow! Was that was a dive into my old archive discs. In the process I found some earlier XDCam Drive Software. These packages from memory were the software to actually use various XDCam drives. They are verions 2.2.1 and 4.0.2.3.

Whether they are of use to you, well I guess you will have to suck them and see. These packages are .EXE files for PC. I have no Mac versions. Seems like an eternity ago since I used this software though I do still have an XDCam PDW VTR in the edit suite. If people come in with XDCam discs I just capture from SDI these days.

But you are welcome to give the files a go. You can download them in a Zip file called: XDCam Drive firmware [early versions] from my Google Drive @

XDCam Drive firmware [early versions].zip

drive.google.com

Good luck. Let us know how you go as sometimes the info is useful for others in the same boat.

Chris Young