footage between pc and mac

[smelni]

On set I use a pc laptop connected to usb drives to capture footage. Can those same drives be connected to a mac to import the footage? Any ideas?

[Beat Takeshi]

should be able to. We had a few problems with Mac mini drives but regular PC formatted drives worked fine for us.

[Barry_Green]

If the drives are formatted FAT32, you should have no problems. I've done this many times.

[Kholi]

Correct, as Barry stated.

Be sure to make sure it's Fat32 and not an HSF+ format, or you will not be able to share footage with a Windows-based operating system or vice versa.

[smelni]

SO if we purchase formatted drives I should reformat FAT32 on the PC - load footage - and then the mac will be able to read it - do I have this correct?

[dolby]

Most external drives come formatted Fat32 and will work fine with a mac. If you reformat the drive on a PC it will have to be NTFS and will still work when connected to a mac but you can only read off of it and can not write to it.

Also, once you have a new drive and want to reformat it...don't. In XP you can not format a drive or partition larger that 32 gig unless you go through a lengthy command line process that I can not remember how to do at the moment.

dolby

[smelni]

I think most pc formatted drives come NTFS - also you can format any size drive in win xp - I do it all the time - Or do you mean you can format larger then 32 if you do FAT32?