MAC hard drive format

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MAC hard drive format

Posted by Dave Felder on March 5, 2011 at 8:43 pm

A client hired a crew to shoot a two hour meeting with a pair of EX3’s. The plan was they would copy the SxS cards to hard drive and ship to me for editing on CS5/Win7.

Although we specified the hard drives needed PC format, the drive is unrecognized on my edit system, but when I put it to a friend’s MAC we can read it, making me assume the drive is MAC formatted.

Any advice on the best way to get that data over to my PC?

Thanks in advance.

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ

Jeff Brown replied 15 years, 5 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Vince Becquiot
March 5, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Hi Dave,

Get a copy of Macdrive.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Dave Felder
March 5, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Thanks, Vince.
Is MacDrive well behaved? Does it load any bloat or background utilities that I don’t need onto the PC (sort of the way Quicktime does?)

Call me paranoid, I get uncomfortable loading drivers onto an otherwise stable computer system.

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ
Alex Udell
March 5, 2011 at 10:24 pm

I found MacDrive to be a great tool when I’ve used it.

Alex
Vince Becquiot
March 5, 2011 at 11:08 pm

Well, it does work in the background, so if I were you I would just go get one of those new shiny Mac Book Pros instead 🙂

But as Alex said, it’s been pretty solid on our end. If this is a one time transfer, you should be able to use the trial version.

Cheers,

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Rich Rubasch
March 5, 2011 at 11:25 pm

Macdrive should be required on every PC sold. Stable since 2003, never had an issue and makes any PC compatible with Mac drives.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com
Dave Felder
March 5, 2011 at 11:49 pm

Thanks for all the great advice and reassurances.
Dave

Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ
Angelo Lorenzo
March 6, 2011 at 12:00 am

Throwing my hat into the ring. MacDrive is great, doesn’t dent resources and no appreciable overhead when transfering files to and from MacDrive. If you flip the situation, Mac can read NTSC (win) drives but if you want to write to them, it’s worth looking into MacFuse.

I’ve never had MacFuse crash or do anything odd and I’ve been running it two years thus far.
Jeff Brown
March 8, 2011 at 5:04 pm

I too have had no trouble with MacDrive when I used it. It’s been a while, but the version I used was very easy to “turn off” on reboot, so you could keep it installed but inactive.

-jeff

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