editing using NTFS formatted drive on a mac..

[Christopher Targia]

HFS will always be the fastest drive speed, FAT32 is slower, NTFS is faster then FAT32 but since you have to have a program running to do whatever decoding it needs to do to make it readible by your mac it will definatly be slower, how much? I have no idea, might be faster to use Fat32 for all I know, use AJA System Test to see which drives are faster.

MacPro Octo Core Intel Xenon 2.8Ghz 6GB 800MHz DDR2 Ram
FCP 7.0

[Jean-christophe Boulay]

i’ve had issues with the Tuxera NTFS driver in the past. I think that’s the one you refer to. If you ever have trouble with it,Paragon Software make a Mac NTFS driver: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

I’ve used it for quite a while and it works well. You get full priviledges on the drive, which may help you. There’s a free-to-try period, so you can give it a go. If you work with NTFS drives often, this driver is worth it. Don’t install both drivers at the same time, though. Trust me.

IHTH

JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com

[Anastasis Lazos]

thanks guys,
I am not using NTFS drives often, we bought a drive to collect footage from various people filming this cycling game in town and most have pcs, so i thought i ll format the drive in NTFS and give it to them to copy their data on it then i ll edit using FCP on my mac..(material ll be SD btw.)
But maybe its better if i can find a driver for pcs to write on mac drives and i dont mess on my side.. (?)

[Doug Beal]

I don’t have trouble using NTFS to read from in FCP, but FCP takes conrol of drives and it seems to supercede finder level ownership so writing may be an issue. I have paragon NTFS for mac on my system and have no issues or complaints with it’s operation however I always use HFS for anything FCP needs to write to.
The PC alternative is macdrive from Mediafour. Have it on a Scratch system no problems or interference

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN