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PC reading mac hard drive ?
i’m having some film transferred to HD .. the place has mac/pc with decklink..
they sent me a test on hard drive which was captured using premiere pro w HD decklink.
the files are 10bit 1920×1080 24p .avi .. the files are very unstable.
sometimes they’ll play/show up in combustion/AE and sometimes they don’t.
i could be working on a clip and then it disappears or combustion/AE crashes .. the avi’s crash sony Vegas .. i have BM 4.9codec .. have tried it on 3 XP computers.i then got some HD QT test clips on DVD’s (they were captured using FCP & HD decklink 10bit 1920×1080 24p .mov on DVD’s as data) .. the .mov are stable. they plays without any problem in Vegas ,combustion, AE6.5 + no problem working with them ..
based on my experience with QT.mov & avi and the $$$ i’ll be spending for the telecine i’ll go QT ..
is there some software or ?? that would allow my PC to read/transfer the HD QT clips from a 1394 drive ( mac formatted) to my PC ???
approx 700gigs of clips -
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You can use a PC formatted Hard Drive on a Mac. Just format the HD on your PC… give it to your telecine op… and have him nount it on his mac. It should be formated in FAT32 for it to have read and write support on the mac… not NTFS. You can also capture directly into quicktime on a PC.
Juan
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A PC formatted FAT32 drive is not a good idea on a Mac for what you’re doing. There’s a max file size of 2GB I believe, and a FAT32 partition cannot be larger than 137GB.
The best solution is to use Gigabit Ethernet. Just share your PC drives over the network and the Mac can mount them. It’s also faster than Firewire.
But if you need firewire for transporting, there are programs for the PC to read Mac formatted HFS drives. The one I use is called MacDrive and it works great. Another one is MacDisk. They’re cheap, like under $50.
Sean
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the transfer house only offers 2 choices on their loaned hard drives either you take NTSF with avi or HFS with mov … files in the 300gig + area …
the software solutions looks like the best for this time ..
for backup – i do know a production house that does have mac & pc on their network. when i transfer to digibeta i pc render as mov and they transfer the mov files from NTSF drive over their network to Mac/decklink to transfer to tape !
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Donatello,
You might try MAC Drive. The demo is free.
DRW
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Another one is called MacOpener. Works well for me, exchanging HFS formatted FW drives with Mac systems.
-jeff
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Update: MacOpener doesn’t do so well on my newer system. Have since switched to “MacDrive”
-jeff
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