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Drive/QT question
Hello,
I have a WD 1000G drive that I’ve logged & captured footage in FCP5 on a MAC. I tried to plug the drive into a PC’s USB port (the PC does not have a firewire port) but it is not showing up under “My Computer” in the “Start” menu, although it IS showing up under disk management.
I’ve installed the installation CD on the PC & did NOT initialize the drive before using capturing the footage. The drive appears immediately on a few Macs, but none of the PC’s I’ve tried it on.
From what I understand, the digitized footage on the drive comes up as QT files which is a cross platform, so the files should be able to be viewed as QT files when the drive is opened up, as long as the PC has QT.
My problem is getting the drive to open on a PC. Someone suggested maybe creating a new path for the drive in the PC.
Any step by step help in this matter would be appreciated.
Thanks
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The files are cross-platform, but the hard drive isn’t. Your hard drive is formated using the Mac Standard known as HFS+. Windows machines can’t read HFS+. They use what’s called NTFS to format their drives. Macs can read those, but they can’t write to them. So neither format is really cross-platform.
You have 2 solutions:
1) Re-format your drive as a FAT32 drive. This can be used on both systems BUT you’ll have to erase the drive to do this AND all files must be less than 2 GB as FAT32 won’t recognize files bigger than that. This works, but I consider it a poor solution.
2) Get a program like this:
https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/That’s really what you need, although I’ve never used it. You may want to use Google to find some reviews before you pay for it, just to make sure it works well.
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Depending on the bitrate of the QTs, they won’t play well via USB. Yes, I know USB2 has a faster transfer rate than standard firewire, but it doesn’t transfer data in the sustained manner that is required for pro video.
If you just want to transfer data to the PC I would consider an ethernet connection.
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