Mxf Files Copied From Pc To Mac?

SISUMAN

SISUMAN

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I did about 40 gigs of 720p work as a videographer for a student film and downloaded them to my PC, with the MXF files, if you've downloaded them onto a PC, will you be able to import them into mac and manipulate them?
My client doesn't have blu-ray so he wants to transfer via firewire or USB from my PC to his MAC.
I need to free up the space on my hard drive soon, so please, a word in a timely manner would be greatly appreciated. Barry, any input?
Thanks,
David Bruno
SISU PRODUCTIONS, INC.
 
Yes you can do that.

However, if your client uses FCP/FCS, be aware that unless they have Raylight, FCP/FCS will want to rewrap all the MXF file contents into QuickTime containers. That takes a bit of time, doubles the amount of disk space needed (at least until after the rewrapping is done, at which point you could delete the MXF files), and most importantly it limits your ability to move the files back to the PC because Apple supports DVCProHD QuickTime files on the Mac only.

There are two options: a) get Raylight for the Mac and work with the MXF files natively, giving you full access to the metadata, or b) let the client rewrap the MXF files into QuickTime files, and then get Raylight Decoder for the PC so that it can decode the DVCProHD QuickTime files. I strongly suggest the former.
 
I would use an external USB or Firewire hard drive if you have one. The next best bet would be a Ethernet connection, and your final option is networking via Firewire. I've never seen a PC-to-Mac USB connection (only PC-to-PC).
 
Does anyone have any experience using MacDrive software? The software
says it lets you drag and drop files from a PC to a Mac - and its cheap (25.00).
 
So with Mac Drive, I can transfer an mxf file from a pc laptop to a portable harddrive formatted for mac, and then import that footage to my mac desktop without having to worry about FAT 32?
 
I did a review of MacDrive years ago and it does work as advertised. The PC on which it is installed with read from and write to a Mac formatted HDD.

But it was a little quirky at times, which may have been remedied through new releases in the last years.
 
SISUMAN said:
I did about 40 gigs of 720p work as a videographer for a student film and downloaded them to my PC, with the MXF files, if you've downloaded them onto a PC, will you be able to import them into mac and manipulate them?
My client doesn't have blu-ray so he wants to transfer via firewire or USB from my PC to his MAC.
I need to free up the space on my hard drive soon, so please, a word in a timely manner would be greatly appreciated. Barry, any input?
Thanks,
David Bruno
SISU PRODUCTIONS, INC.
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MacDrive is ok but as some have pointed out has its quirks. We do PC to Mac transfers often and find the best solution is the Paragon NTFS utility for Mac OS X. This gives you full read/write access to NTFS-formatted drives from a PC on the Mac. Works like a charm, it's cheap and they even have a free demo:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
 
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