Canon XF305 glitch when importing premiere AAF

So I'm trying to round trip a Premiere Pro multicam sequence into Resolve (the edited sequence, not the assembly one.)

For reference, I exported out my AAF. Dropped all my media into resolve and then imported the AAF and for the most part, everything is great! (Originally the GH4 was a nested sequence, and that didn't transfer, but when I dropped the files in rather than the nest, it worked fine.)

The shoot was done with a few cameras, including BMPCC4Ks and a GH4 and 5 and everything but the XF305 has come in fine. It's there for the first few minutes, but then it cuts out about 4 minutes in.


I'm assuming this is a conflict in how Premiere and Resolve read the file. Just in case you don't know, the XF305 records to an mpg2 MXF file and records 2gb clips (there are 6 for this project.) But when Premiere reads them, it ignores that and just imports one clip, the length of the full recording. Which is actually really helpful when working in things like mulitcam (unlike the aforementioned GH4, which records 4gb chunks of h.264/mp4 and then really needs to be in a nested sequence to work well with multicam.)

But because essentially only the first file is in the Premiere project, that's all that Resolve is seeing.
(And this is true, even if all 6 physical files are imported into premiere or Resolve. As Premiere will treat all 6 files as an identical half hour long recording, so I imagine I could use any of them and encounter this problem, only at different locations in the timeline.)

Is there a work around for this? Without having to line all the XF305 files up in Resolve, match them against the main sequence and then figure out where they're meant to go?
(Which isn't really an option, as the edited sequence has chunks cut out and chunks re-arranged.)

This was a classic case of thinking about something for ages, asking the question and then figuring out the answer almost immediately.

I'd be interested to know if there's a more official answer to this, but my answer was just to transcode the footage. Like Premiere, Media Encoder sees one of the 6 clips as the full file, and so just transcoding into Prores and dropping that into my multicam assembly sequence instead of the MXF and then re-exporting my AAF worked great.

(Don't try and fix issues like this late at night I guess is the takeaway lol!)

Is there a work around for this?

I think the best handling is in the production phase. Don't use cameras that employ Clip Spanning.