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Media Management in FCPX
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Interesting that it’s FAT32. Macs should be able to write to FAT32 although there’s a 4GB file limit. I wonder if there’s something specific to FCPX that blocks FAT32 due to the file size limit. The OS itself doesn’t prevent writing to FAT32 drives though.
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[Craig Seeman] ” I wonder if there’s something specific to FCPX”
FCPx only allows HFS+ drives for events/media.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “FCPx only allows HFS+ drives for events/media.”
Although David can apparently import from FAT32. I’d guess that if one disabled Copy Files. . . in preferences it would successfully create aliases pointing to the drive although obviously the Event would be on HFS+ drives.
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My guess is that the 4GB file size limit is the reason. Video files can easily grow much larger than 4GB, and because of this FAT32 would pose a serious problem for an event, even if your individual clips are small in size. Render files also go into the event, and a longer project made up of small clips can have large render files.
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[Craig Seeman] “Although David can apparently import from FAT32. I’d guess that if one disabled Copy Files. . . in preferences it would successfully create aliases pointing to the drive although obviously the Event would be on HFS+ drives.”
That would be the way, but the event has to be on an HFS+. If you bring that drive to another machine, you are hosed.
Jeremy
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FAT32 formatted drives also operate much slower than HFS+ formatted drives. Something to do with how it deals with files, can’t remember what.
Trust me, you want to edit with HFS+.
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