Giving Raw Footage To Client

Ed Kukla · March 15th, 2010, 05:46 AM

this has developed into a mac and PC issue

I formatted a clients HD's to mac and then afterwords found out the edit was on an Avid/PC. Shouldn't the editor have been able to use those files with the Avid/PC? Editor couldn't figure it out and used FCP instead.

I'm still not clear on when mac/pc are interchangable and when they are not.

Richard Hunter · March 15th, 2010, 06:07 AM

I'd go for the 12 DVD option (actually 10 discs are probably enough). Doesn't take that long to burn, and it's way cheaper than buying a hard drive.

Richard

Victor Matos · March 15th, 2010, 11:26 AM

I use a program called Paragon on my MAC. $39 dollars I believe. Allows the Mac to read & write NTFS files to a PC formatted drive. I installed clipbrowser on my clients PC laptop, copied my files to a PC formatted drive. My client can see the files on the drive and so can I.
Now, what can they do with the XDCAM files apart from viewing them, I don't know. Maybe you can hand them a hard drive with PC friendly files, WMV, AVI etc. That's if you are getting paid to convert the files.

March 15th, 2010, 05:46 AM	#31
Ed Kukla Major Player Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: All over, USA Posts: 512	this has developed into a mac and PC issue I formatted a clients HD's to mac and then afterwords found out the edit was on an Avid/PC. Shouldn't the editor have been able to use those files with the Avid/PC? Editor couldn't figure it out and used FCP instead. I'm still not clear on when mac/pc are interchangable and when they are not.

March 15th, 2010, 06:07 AM	#32
Richard Hunter Trustee Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lipa City Batangas, Philippines Posts: 1,110	I'd go for the 12 DVD option (actually 10 discs are probably enough). Doesn't take that long to burn, and it's way cheaper than buying a hard drive. Richard

March 15th, 2010, 11:26 AM	#33
Victor Matos Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Edgewood, KY Posts: 40	I use a program called Paragon on my MAC. $39 dollars I believe. Allows the Mac to read & write NTFS files to a PC formatted drive. I installed clipbrowser on my clients PC laptop, copied my files to a PC formatted drive. My client can see the files on the drive and so can I. Now, what can they do with the XDCAM files apart from viewing them, I don't know. Maybe you can hand them a hard drive with PC friendly files, WMV, AVI etc. That's if you are getting paid to convert the files.