Large quicktime delivery method

[David Roth weiss]

The client on the PC side needs to install MacDrive on their computer, period, end of story…

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[Jeff Carpenter]

FAT32 won’t take a 9 GB file. Unfortunately that’s the only cross-platform drive standard.

You have a couple of options.

1) Format it as a Mac drive and have your clients buy (or buy for them) Macdrive, which will let their Windows machine use the drive. This is probably a good idea if you do a lot of business with them, but not a great idea if this is the only job you’re doing with them.
https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

2) Connect to a local PC over gigabit ethernet. The file will copy pretty quickly to the Windows machine and you can use the external drive there. Format as NTFS in this case, not FAT32 (which is what the Mac does for Windows PC formatting).

3) Find a way to make an NTFS drive work with your Mac.
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html
Try that link, but I have to admit that’s over my head. Perhaps you or someone you know is more computer adept and can figure that out.

[Tom Wolsky]

Sure. 4G file limit in FAT32. What David said.

All the best,

Tom

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Zip it and burn it on to a dual layer DVD.

Jeremy

[Chris Borjis]

on idea #4, don’t count on it working.

I have both a free version of that NTFS writing method and a paid version of software to do it and neither work.

both are flaky and not to be trusted at this time.

so as a workaround I map a drive from a pc and copy it that way.

[David Peralta]

FTP them that 13GB file, and make them wait!

hmm… I wonder what this button does…

[Steven Gonzales]

Could you split the file, and reassemble at the other end?

3 small quicktimes should each be under the fat32 file size limit.

[Marc Bostrøm]

try this:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
or
What about spliting the QT in 2GB files?
(Have not tryed this myself.)

Marc Bostrom
-| just another PRO FCP user |-

[Chris Borjis]

[Marc Bostrom] “try this:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
or”

thats the software I have and it does not work
for a lot of people, for the few it does work
for it has a tendancy to corrupt files and the tech support is near non-existant.

I can’t believe they can stay in business running
their company that way.

[Zane Barker]

[Tim Taylor] “Uncompressed HD quicktime”

Along with all the other suggestions, you should also make sure that thy PC can even play a an uncompressed HD quicktime file. You may need to convert it into a file type they can actually play.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!