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HVX 200 – Mac -PC workflow
Good to all,
I am shooting a featre in Januaray, am trying to get an HVX-200 to do it on. My question is I have toshiba 3ghz laptop, can I download the P2 cards to the laptop, then transfer to a hard drive to edit on my FCP 5 system later? I may use the internal 80 gig drive to transfer files to in the field, or I may connect a firewire drive to the laptop and transfer files from P2 to the external 1394 drive.Which Hard Drive format would work best for this cross platform approach. I probably can not afford a Mac laptop and a new camera package. ?Sugestions? please?
Thanks,
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Yes you can do that.
I used the HVX and offloaded the cards onto my Dell laptop’s internal hard disk. The editor who cut the footage for DV Expo was using a Mac. We transferred the files off my laptop and onto an external firewire hard disk, and he edited from there.
Use FAT32, not NTFS, as (last I checked) Macs have an easier time reading FAT32.
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Thank you Barry, that is really good to know.
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