When Sony released their F5 and F55 camera systems, they rolled out yet another video codec in the form of XAVC. While the XAVC codec sports excellent quality and compression characteristics surpassing their legacy XDCAM format, it still has a major weakness. You can’t easily watch the footage. Either the Sony Content Browser or an editing suite such as Abode Premiere must be used. And 4K footage wont even play in the Content Browser …