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New solution for delivering large video files on hard drives to PC-based clients
Tuxera is a Mac driver that allows you to write files of any size to a NTFS formatted PC hard drive. I’ve tested the demo version, and it works beautifully and completely transparently. See the link below to download the demo or to buy the full version (listed as $25 Euros without a dollar amount for some reason).
Until Tuxera, the 4Gb file size limitation made it impossible to copy files over 4Gb to a FAT32 formatted drive, and NTFS formatted drives could only be read on Macs, writing to them was not possible. So, the only workable solution for sending large files over 4Gb to clients with PCs, was sending them on drives formatted as Mac Extended, and making certain the clients purchased and installed the more expensive MacDrive app. from Mediafour.com. Not every client was will to go to that expense, so that could be a real deal breaker for many editors on Macs. Tuxera changes all that, and creates a seamless method for delivering files on hard drives to your PC-based clients.
https://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I use the free version, NTFS-3G for Mac OS X, but this looks to be much faster.
Free via sourceforge – https://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/
HandyGeek
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For about a year I’ve been using Paragon NTFS for Mac, which does the same thing:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
Still, it’s good to have several options from which to choose. Thanks for the link.
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I will second NTFS for Mac® OS X – great product. I’m a Mac guy and needed to hand off some work to a client who was PC. This little product allowed me to drag and drop 10GB size files to his PC formatted externals (I could only read his drives before) – yep, I could now write to them! Just installed and bam, my mac spoke PC…
Lonnie
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Hi David…thanks- I’ve read both this post and one in which You responded to my post about the same issue..
I have a lot to learn so please forgive my questions but want to make sure I’m clear- Tuxera looks cool but it seems only for copying files over from Macs to NTFS drives, for sharing with clients on Windows machines- but I would assume that it does not allow Macs to use an NTFS-formatted drive for running a Final Cut Pro project.
From what You’ve written it appears to me that running a drive in Mac Extended format is best for FCP, is that correct? I’m on a low budget and so it would appear to me that the best thing for me to do for now is to use my WD 750GB drive as mass storage formatted FAT32 for files smaller than 4GB, and use the larger 1TB Seagate as my FCP project drive, formatted Mac Extended, and not use it at all for file sharing.
Maybe when there’s a little more money available I’ll purchase MacDrive for the Windows machine.
Does that sound like a good approach to You?
thanks so much,
scott
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