WORKFLOW PROBLEM: switching footage from PC to Mac
 

Hi,

I'm trying to switch my footage from a PC to a Mac to have my colorist do color grading.

The problem:
His Mac has only 1 HD slot left Internal and his logic board has a HD size limitaton which is inferior to my footage space (500-750 GB unsure which) I'm unsure about using EXT HD with firewire to work at color grading with AE.

Will my colorist be able to to work on firewire EXT HDs ? (they will be HTF formatted.)

I working with CFHD avi so is 16 MB/sec and it's VRB which I'm unsure from how much to how much; streams are supposed to have an impact on this as well (but I'm unsure what is defines exactly).

Thank you.

Can anyone give me guidance, I'm quite lost with this and IT people all seems to give me different answers.

Don't use HTF, use an NTFS formatted drive running this: NTFS-3G for Mac OS X on the Mac. Then the files will transfer without issue.

We tried the NTFS-3g and other paid driver for NTFS on Mac, but the files randomly disapeared and reapeared on HD.

It's a 1,5 TB but the logic board of the Mac supports only 500 GB.

Sounds like a sick Mac. We've uses NTFS tools on the Mac without any issues. You could try using MacDrive on the PC, I've haven't done that in years. Easiest is to use GigE and network your PC and Mac.

Thanks David, I'll look into it.

And yes it's the Mac, I've had HD tested in a MAc store with no problem at all.