• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  little off topic formating for pc

  Posted by Tom Maloney on February 12, 2008 at 7:18 pm

  excuse me for going off topic here. I have a client that wants some quicktime files delivered on a portable hard drive. I belive the client to be pc based. I was informed that if I format the hard drive to fat 32 from my Mac their pc and my Mac should both be able to read the drive. The only option I see in my Mac utilty menu for formatting is Ms Dos File System. Is this what I format to for a Pc ?
  Thanks all

  Tom

  ” EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, which is why we call it the present”

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  Tom Maloney replied 18 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Alan Lacey

  February 12, 2008 at 8:38 pm

  Go for it, that’s the one!

  Alan
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  Jeff Carpenter

  February 12, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  Make sure you keep all files under 2 GB. The drive won’t accept anything higher in that format.

  If that proves difficult for your project, you could format it as a Mac drive and buy this for the PC person:

  https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
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  David Bogie

  February 12, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  Do you have time to run a test or two?
  Just because you get the drive formatted properly doesn’t mean the PC has a useful version of Quicktime on it. You may need to negotiate on a different format and you may or may not be able to deliver the codec or the architecture.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Tom Maloney

  February 13, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  Thanks to all for the great information. The software recomended seems to work well and should be the solution for me.

  Thanks again

  Tom

  ” EVERY DAY IS A GIFT, which is why we call it the present”

  Alfred Hitchcock

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