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saving video to hdd
I took on what I thought was a simple job for a client. He has a bunch of tapes in various formats, dv, beta sp, and beta sx. He wants them all put on hard drives for safe keeping. His office is on Windows, but he may want to use the files in FCP. I used Mac Fuse and formatted the drives in NTFS, since he wouldn’t be able to see Mac OS drives on windows and FAT32 wouldn’t be able to handle large files. Everything looks great on my system, but when I move to another Mac system, all I see are a bunch of Zero Kb aliases.
Have I done this all wrong? How would you do this job?
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I would have captured everything except DV to ProRes and put it on a Mac OS Extended drive.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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But they need to be able to screen the files on windows boxes.
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They just need a simple App to read the MacOS (HFS+) drive format.
https://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070502234618295
Shane
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Personally, I’d plug the destination drive into a Windows PC, format the drive there, capture everything to whatever format the client asked for locally on the Mac and transfer the whole lot to the destination over the network. That’s clearly a night-time transfer. It’s a clunky setup, but it ensures everything will be readable by the client first try. Asking a client to install software to complete my job is against my rules, personally.
Any old semi-functional Windows XP or later machine should do the trick as long as its FW and LAN ports work.
JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
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yeah, that sounds like the best plan so far. Ideally, I’d like to save everything in ProRes. They’ll be able to read those?
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You’re right, that would be clunky as hell, but it would work. I’ll talk to the client.
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I have captured HDV footage into FCP using Apple Pro-Res. Now, I would like to edit these clips into several clips, but am not smart enough to figure this out.
I am sure there is a way to set multiple in/out points in these captures.
Or, do I need to capture it in the segments I want to use? -
Mark your in and outs and export to self contained clip.
Chris Tompkins
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[Jim Sprague] “I’d like to save everything in ProRes. They’ll be able to read those?”
Yes, they will just need to download the read-only ProRes codec from Apple. You can grab that here.
-Bryan
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