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  PC client working with a FCPX Editor – dual formatting & external hard drive recommendations

  Posted by Don Gordoni on May 10, 2017 at 7:04 pm

  Please recommend your favorite external hard drives to use for transferring clips back and forth with clients who use PCs (I edit with FCPX on a Macbook Pro). Also, recommendations for the initial formatting of the drive.

  Thanks,
  Don

  Sam Lee replied 9 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Sam Lee

  May 12, 2017 at 12:36 am

  exFAT (free). The only big gripe about exFAT is the severely limited volume name (11-char max). But other than that, it can handle large file size (>4 Gb) easily.

  Test it thoroughly. Not sure if it can handle larger projects. So far it’s functioning fine on small-medium scale project. That’s not a lot of multicam complexities, layers of audio and so forth.

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