• Avid Media Composer

  FCP to AVID, computer says no

  Posted by Joe B kowski on May 15, 2007 at 8:55 pm

  I’m posting here since my end goal involves an AVID so hopefully someone has had a similar issue and found a work around.

  I have a 24gb 10 bit uncompressed quicktime movie originating from FCP on a mac. I need to get it onto a PC so that it can be taken into AVID and transferred to digi beta.

  The problem lies in that the PC will not recognise the external hard drive. If i reformat the drive using a Mac so that it’s MS-DOS (Fat32) it is impossible to transfer files larger than 4GB onto the drive (because of the FAT32 setting)

  If i format the drive using a PC when i look at the drive back on the Mac it is read only and i can’t transfer the file onto it as a result.

  Other than chopping the film up in the edit into several smaller files which i’d rather avoid I’m pretty much at a loss here. For the benefit of mankind and an unsuspecting film festival circuit please help me out.

  John Pale replied 19 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Terence Curren

  May 15, 2007 at 10:41 pm

  The best way is to purchase MacDrive for the PC. Then you can read and write to Mac formatted drives.

  The poor man’s way to get around it right now is to connect your Mac and the PC to the same network, make the drive shareable on your Mac and mount it on the PC.

  This doesn’t address any of the codec issues are heading for though….

  Terence Curren
  http://www.alphadogs.tv
  http://www.digitalservicestation.com
  Burbank,Ca
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  Iann Mcgill

  May 16, 2007 at 12:15 pm

  Just to make sure we haven’t missed anything simple…
  On your Avid, are you sure that the pc just isn’t seeing your drive because you have too many of your drive letters taken up? You may just need to manage your drive, and assign it a different drive letter. Avids are synonymous for this.

  1) Plug your drive in.
  2) Click “my computer” right click
  3) select “manage”
  4) select “disk management”
  5) search for your external drive. If you see it in the bottom right window, right click it, and select “change drive letter and path”
  6) a window will pop up and then select “change”
  7) select a new letter from the drop down and then see if your drive mounts.

  I used to cross work on pc’s and mac’s all the time, and this was a common problem.

  Hope that helps.

  iann
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  John Pale

  May 19, 2007 at 8:27 pm

  The Apple Uncompressed Quicktime Codec used in FCP is only available for Mac…its installed by FCP only.

  Your Avid may not be able to read it unless you install the uncompressed codec for Windows from Blackmagic or AJA, available on their websites.

  If you used the Avid Uncompressed Quicktime codec you should be fine.

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