transfer of P2 to an Mac or PC

[Shane Ross]

The drive should be PC formatted….You can try FAT 32, but there is a file size limit. But you can try. PCs can’t read Mac formats without special software.

Shane

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[P2 Shooter]

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[Chris Baldwin]

Thanks for the feedback Shane,

Actually though I’m a little more confused now.

Should I then have one Mac Laptop with Mac OS Journaled formated external hard drives that I use to give clients P2 content that are going to be editing on a Mac

AND

A PC laptop connected to a PC formatted hard drive for the PC based editors?

Goodness…

Well even if that’s the case I was told, have read, AND have been burned by FAT32 formatted hard drives when used with Mac’s. This is why I use the Mac OS Journaled formatting.

But what is the right thing for Hard drives that are going to be transferred through a PC laptop for use on another PC based avid station?

I am worried because I can’t believe that Fat32’s file size problems only effect Macs. Is there a PC based formatting that doesn’t have the file size issues?

Sorry to be in a bit of a panic about it but I have to offload content to just such a PC client tomorrow.

Any help would be much appreciated.

THANKS!

[Mariusz Cichon]

hi there,

Use FAT32 as format for external drive. P2 cards are formatted te same and can be read on PC or Mac. I have done it before and there is no problem with file size limit.

[Chris Baldwin]

THanks,

So use Fat32 for external hard drives that are connected to PC laptop? Ok

Is there any chance that a FAT32 hard drive can connect to a Mac laptop for offloading the P2 cards and then connect to a PC and transferred to a PC suite?

thanks

[Noah Kadner]

The drive you give to the Avid editor needs to be Fat 32. That said, it’s not necessarily got to be the same one you use in the field. You can for consistency always shoot to Mac OS drives in the field and then duplicate to whatever drive format the client needs once you are back in the office- i.e. Fat 32. That way you also have another backup.

Noah

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[Adam Smith]

Do you need to do anything to the P2 footage or you simply offloading cards for PC use? If you have the camera and cards consider using an empty firewire drive and offload directly from the camera in Firewire Host mode with Verify… It’ll wipe the drive and create new Fat32 partitions for each card copied.

Or you could do the same from the Mac.. Creating enough >32gb partitionson a FireWire or USB drive to hold all your P2 offloads.

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[Marc Istook]

Have you been able to view any of the files you transfered to these hard drives in FCP’s Log and Transfer box? For some reason, I can see the files but can’t view the previews when I look at footage that’s on a hard drive versus the Panasonic drive or the camera.

Has anyone else had this problem??

– Marc

[Chris Baldwin]

Hi Noah thanks for the input.

So I am glad to hear that I don’t need two laptops. I can offload in the field through my mac g4 powerbook to a firewire Mac os journaled hard drive,

THEN duplicate that to another hard drive formatted Fat32, daisy chained to the first hard drive, and give the PC based Avid clients a drive their computer can read and while retaining a back up of their content on my OS journaled hard drive that my macs can read

OR that I can again duplicate to another Fat32 formatted hard drive for them if they needed it again for some reason? …

AND I can do this all through my Mac computers?

I don’t need two laptops is what I’m hearing?

Thanks for one more post on this matter as I just want to finalize the query.

Chris