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PC Media to Mac
A client has an AVID MC PC project on captured External G-Raid drives. I am Mac based. Will the PC media be readable on the Mac or will it have to be recaptured?
Thanks,
Mike
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The media should be readable on the Mac system. The problem is OSX will not be able to modify the PC drive data to update the media material or databases. It is read only, non modifiable unless the drives are FAT32 (which you really don’t want) which I doubt on their RAID. This could cause trouble with AVID if you want to add anything to the storage, changing the database files. Change the location in the Avid settings to a Mac formatted drive for anything new that will be captured, rendered, imported, etc.
If this is to be a common trait of your workflow, I highly recommend the PC user uses Macdrive and format the drive for OSX. This is also in the G-Tech FAQ as their solution. You can then both share and modify the data without problems next time. I don’t think it is officially supported by AVID but I have done it on previous projects for editing and exporting to sound mix, graphics, etc.
Other than a fast fiber channel network setup it seems to be the only real solution for cross-platform projects on single base user systems.
There is a trial version of 7 you can test.
Other than that get ready to spend time copying over the data to your raid drives to work on. That works fine but takes time and storage costs.
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