[Carlos Pinero]

No we formatted Mac Extended Journaled.

No limit correct. My assumption is the Drive was too slow for FCP to transfer the large file.

Am I wrong?

[Carlos Pinero]

Just in case someone else looks: to wrap this up…

So we reformatted the drives on my MBP then plugged them into the original Windows machine to recopy the footage.

All has worked fine so far back on my imac EXCEPT I had some issues with the FW800 drive and transferring a 6.1 gb spanned file. I moved the clips to my internal and had no problem although FCP now saw the clips as separate clips and not 1 spanned clip.

Just FYI and to wrap up the thread. Thanks everyone.

[Carlos Pinero]

New info:
Mac Standard has a 2gig limit. I will try and move the files to an Extended disk and see if the problem is solved.

Quoted from : https://support.apple.com/kb/TA27115?viewlocale=en_US

Mac OS Standard Format Specifications
Before discussing hard drive block allocation, and the intricacies of determining allocation block sizes and such, let’s first review the Macintosh Standard format, sometimes called HFS.

Below are some specifications and associated terminology used to describe the Macintosh Standard format structure.

The maximum file size is 2 GB.
The maximum number of files on a volume is 65,536.
The maximum number of files in a folder is 32,767.
The maximum size of the data fork in a file is 2 GB.
The maximum size of the resource fork in a file is 16 megabytes.

[Carlos Pinero]

Yes, they were formatted on a windows PC using a mac disk formatting utility.

Any thoughts on the mac standard formatting?

I thought USB 2.0 was usable if not the best solution. We have It on a FireWire drive too, will test tomorrow.

Thanks for the quick response!