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Editing with Mac formatted drives on Windows CS5
Hi,
Has anyone had any experience with editing with Mac formatted drives on a CS5 Premiere Pro on CPU running Window 7?
We have about a 1 TB of footage on Mac formatted drives and are having to switch gear from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro. I am under the impression that we would have to transfer all the media onto NTFS formatted drives, but the editor is guessing that it should be a problem.
–Eddie
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6 Replies
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There are utilities to read Mac drives under Windows, though I’m not sure I’d want some third-party thing sitting between me and my edit files.
I’d set up the transfer to run overnight(s) and just do that.
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Mac Drive is a fine solution for this.
Assumes your media is stored in a compatible codec.
Alex
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Just a personal suggestion: perhaps exporting an EDL would be the smartest way to work, and recapture footage using a Windows-compatible CODEC.
I agree with Alex, I think this is going to be your biggest issue.
As far as transferring media, you could always try using FAT32 formatted drives, which will be compatible with both Win and Mac OS’s, however, you will have a 4 GB file size limit on individual files to contend with.
It’s always harder to do the right thing, but you’ll be glad you did in the end.
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Media four Mac drive software for PC. best investment. 😉
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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Ok so MacDrive is the software to have. I agree. Been using it for years. But what codec can a FCP user digitize to that will play nicely in a PPro sequence? What about ProRes? Does Premier on the PC support ProRes yet? That would be the way to go. A truly cross platform codec solution and you could upload in a FCP Kona system on the Mac and bring the footage over to a PC Premier system for cutting etc.
How about ProRes on a Mac in Premier Pro?
Anyone try it yet?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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Cineform has codecs that are cross platform I believe.
There is the ability read ProRes on the PC side as well.
Haven’t tried it though.
Alex
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