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Mac to PC, PC to Mac workflows
We’re looking at installing a new 16 Core PC with 2 – 4 GPUs as essentially our beast render box. The issue we run into when moving Mac to PC or vice versa is we always have to reconnect the media when switching OS. This is primarily due to the Mac and PC seeing our SAN differently.
Mac sees the partitions as SAN 1, SAN 2, etc…
PC sees the partitions as G:, H:, etc…..
For smaller projects it’s not all that big a deal to switch the OS, find the first clip and then everything reconnects. Sometimes for larger projects it can be more of an ordeal to find the first clip and even there, just reconnecting one file may not get everything else to line up.
Anyone here have advice to make the transfer between OS an easier process? Thanks.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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HD Post and Production
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Hi Walter…
what’s your connectivity topology?
Fibre or ethernet?
Not sure what you can do about fiber…because in that case each machine sees media as “local” drives.
If you were to mount and connect the drives via ether…
then you can UNC paths and this should avoid the letter drive versus mac volume path labelling discrepancies….
hmmm…
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It’s an ethernet based NAS. About 100TB of shared storage. We have the volumes partitioned for easier management.
When they mount on the Mac they show up as SAN 1, San 2, etc…
When they mount up on the PC, they show up as G:, H:, I:, etc….
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaFoul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
hiya…
so is it possible to brose thru the network on Windows as opposed to connecting to letter designated volumes windows is assigning them?
should end up with \volumefolder path (UNC) that’s more akin to the mac path
??
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/311079
see if that helps a bit…
lemme know…
Alex
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I tried UNC paths on CS6 and didn’t have any luck.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Hi Walter S….
What does “No luck” ?
not cross platform compatible….or couldn’t connect to media?
alex
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[Alex Udell] “What does “No luck” ? not cross platform compatible….or couldn’t connect to media?”
Not cross-platform compatible. The way Premiere stored UNCs in the project file on CS6 is different on Windows vs Macs, somewhat negating the purpose of UNCs.
I haven’t tried it with CC, but I think the new re-link window in CC is much improved and should make this process a bit easier.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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I wonder if you ran something like Mac Drive on the Windows side that would allow you to connect via afp:
would that solve it?
Alex
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[Alex Udell] “I wonder if you ran something like Mac Drive on the Windows side that would allow you to connect via afp:”
I don’t think MacDrive has an AFP client, does it?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events -
nope 🙁
Alex Udell
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What about the other way?
On the Mac side…
mount volumes SMB
and connect ftg that way….
then open same project up on Windows?
Alex
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