Mac folks,

Growing up a mac person, but making the move to PC in high school made me realize the differences between the two formats. I'm into video editing and have decided to give the ncsu digi media lab a shot and learn final cut down there. The thing is I'd like to take my USB2.0 enclosure down to the mac and be able to access/edit my movie files from the macs, then bring it back to my apt and store them on my PC. Is that possible? Should I format the drive from the mac or the PC? Use NTFS/Fat32/or what?

If you want to point me to a link you got from google with the answer, that's cool too, but I'm just after some quick advice.

Thanks fellers~

5/14/2006 5:39:37 PM

uh, format it as ntfs on your pc, and use it.

There's no conversion or anything, just plug it in and it should work fine

5/14/2006 5:59:57 PM

uh, do all your posts have to start with "uh"?

5/14/2006 6:10:42 PM

based on my personal experiences...OSX can read NTFS, WINXP cannot read whatever OSX format is.

5/14/2006 8:06:23 PM

there's a program i used to use called transmac that will let you read mac-formatted disks on a PC. used it with floppies, so you'd have to check to see if it will read large disks.

it wasn't pretty, but it worked. the interface was kind of like ws_ftp.

5/15/2006 9:28:26 AM

if he just formats it on the PC, it will work on both, no problem

5/15/2006 9:38:51 AM

format with fat32, it will be read on both. *nix cannot write to ntfs, only read it. everything can mount (v)fat

5/15/2006 2:21:28 PM

yep, i'm wrong. Gotta format with fat32, which is reaaaalllly gay and it's going to be all but useless for video editing, due to the 2gb filesize limit.

my advice: instead of using an external usb harddrive, get a NAS device and use that.

5/15/2006 3:30:57 PM

fat32 has a 4 gig file size limit

5/16/2006 11:13:21 AM

wah wah, you are correct

5/16/2006 11:27:21 AM

4GB filesize limit?! dang.

Maybe multiple partitions? or will it limit it to one?

doh

5/17/2006 11:30:21 AM

its a 4gb /file size/ limit. meaning you can't have a raw mpg or vob file bigger than 4gb but the filesystem supports whatever size drive you want

5/17/2006 12:40:16 PM

OHHHHHH roger that


it's been so long since i've used fat32 and not ntfs-- I remember that now, though. Yeah no prob I'll just break 'em up smaller. Thanks guys!


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5/18/2006 1:13:30 AM