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Premiere files to Mac ?
Sure this has been covered before, but is now a new task for me. I have some files in Premiere. I have render to Quicktime files for another person to put into FCP. I havea Lacie drive that came formated to fat 32 out of the box. Should I just transfer these files to the drive as isor do i have to make this drive NTFS like the drives on my pc ? I guess I need to know what a Mac will read. As I understand it FCp will not see AVI files ?
thanks for a ny help to you who have done this
Tom
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It might be better to lay it back out to tape and have the FCP editor recapture it from tape.
Steven
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Fat 32 will work as long as the file size is small enough. Can’t remember what the limit is, but I think 2gig is the max.
db
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thanks , boy that sure has limitations ! glad I have NTFS on my Pcs, How in the work does FCP work with file size limitations like this ?
thanks for the replies
Tom
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It’s actually a FAT32 limitation not a FCP/MAC limitation (might even be a FAT32 on a PC limitation). Seems to me, on a MAC, I was able to get larger files on there, but then trying to transfer to a PC, everything started reading and writing as if the disk was locked and saying I didn’t have access. A real pain.
Thumb/flash drives are all formatted FAT32, that’s why they can be used on both PC and MAC, but because most of them are under 2gigs the limitation is never hit. MAC uses its own formatting system and most newer PCs use NTFS. These can both handle some hefty file sizes but they don
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We do a lot of Premiere files to Mac conversions at my shop and you’re right — Macs can read NTFS, but not write to it.
Our solution has been to network the machines together and just transfer the files across the network.
It works — slowly, sometimes, but it works.
– Dex
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