Crossplatform use of harddrives

[Michael Phillips]

No you cannot. OSX will mount a NTFS drive but it is not optimized for video performance with the OS. The reverse is true for mounting Mac drives on a PC. MOunting as shuttle drive is one thing, but playback and performance is another.

Michael

[Chuck Reti]

Also, at current (10.3.8 Panther) version, OS X can read, but not write to, NTFS volumes.
Possible this may change with 10.4 Tiger, coming soon.

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Chuck Reti
VIdeo Editor
Detroit MI

[Samuel A. martin]

Check a program called MACDrive. It allows PC’s to read/write Mac drives. I partitioned and formatted my lacie drive in a powerbook and use the partition to work on projects that might be used on different platforms. Obviously you need to have MAcdrive installed in the PC you are connecting the drives, otherwise windows won’t recognise the drives and will ask you to format.

Hope this helps. Check apple’s website

Sam

[Mitchel]

Thank you all! Maybe Tiger brings relief. I will try MACdrive and see how it works with Adrenaline.

[Mitchel]

Thanks for the hint, Sam, Mediafour offers a special program for AVID users. Check out this >https://www.mediafour.com/products/crossstripe//<

[Samuel A. martin]

Glad it helped you. Honestly, I had last week someone offlining a feature film documentary on a Mac Powerbook laptop Using Xpress pro and they were having problems pulling out a OMFI for the audio studio. I took the whole drive, wacked it into my PC running Avid and opened it, just like that. Now, most people would be “are you crazy!!!” but the Avid took it without a hitch, straight from a mac, rough as it sounds. It worked flawless.

You can imagine the face of the editor when I took the entire drive and plugged it into my PC, No matter how many times I told her it would be fine. Only when she saw the entire project opened up and the media playing on my broadcast monitor that she managed to sit back and relax.

Honestly, some of the best spent money an editor should consider.

Cheers