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P2 footage to PC and premiere
I shot a job on P2 for the first time and the footage was ingested to a mac drive. My PC doesn’t recognize it and I can’t format my drive for mac and pc. Are there any tricks to getting this footage over to the pc then what kind of issues can I expect in premiere?
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Hi Matt,
You can either buy a copy of Mac Drive and open the drive on your pc, or get a free copy of MacFuse for the Mac, connect a PC drive to it and transfer your footage.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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I had the same problem and Mac Drive fixed it. Excellent software.
The problem, for those who are interested, is that there are 3 file system standards between the Mac and the PC: FAT and NTFS are the Windows systems and HFS is the Mac system (lots of variations of each).
The native Mac file system is HFS. Windows cannot read or write HFS. Mac can read NTFS, but not write to it. Too bad — that would solve a lot of problems. Mac can read and write FAT and FAT32, but those come with a limitation of 4GB file sizes. Many video files routinely exceed that size.
By installing Mac Drive you allow your Windows PC to read and write HFS files. That solves the problem.
*I am sure I have bastardized this explanation — feel free to correct me. When this problem hit me last year it took me a week to solve. Hopefully this info will help somebody avoid that delay!
Neil Myers
Connect Public Relations
CS4 Master Suite, 3DS -
Was the media just transferred to a Mac hard drive to empty the P2 card, or are you saying that someone has “ingested” the media in FCP?
If it’s just a P2 card dump, is it one of those LaCie drives with the orange rubber bumper around it?
Mac Drive won’t help you with those…they just don’t seem to mount on a PC at all…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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