Re: [Avid-L2] Re: External Hard Drive for PC and MAC

Only feasible if you work in OMF since it has a 2GB file size limitation.

MXF however does not have this limitation and will often go above 4GB
with DNxHD media.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, mwest5876 <mwest5876@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So for FAT 32, as long as we don't exceed 4GB, it is feasible? That may be a good start. Thank you.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "mwest5876" <mwest5876@> wrote:
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>> <<I'm about to start a project with a colleague, however, my MC is on Windows Vista 64 and his is on OSX. We are going to share the same files via an external hard drive that is compatible with both OS. Are there any issues that may arise from this that any one knows about?>>
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>>      Yeah, you can't do it.
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>>      OSX will read but doesn't write to NTFS. You can add additional software to handle this.
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>>      Windows can read and write to an OSX drive with additional software.
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>>      In my experience, either way, MC is unhappy with these drives. Even though they work fine at the desktop level, Avid doesn't like reading and writing to them and will give you funky unexplained errors.
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>>      Your final choice is to go FAT 32, but then you are limited to 4GB files and today that gets exceeded all the time.
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>>      You can mount the drive on one CPU, and share it via network connections to the other system, but you will run into access issues.
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