Hello all,

Our editors need to be able to swap projects from our Avid MC Mac laptops to our Avid MC PC laptops.

I have a new Macbook Pro with Avid MC 2.8 on it.  Leopard OS.  It is working fine except that two of the other editors in the office are on Avid MC for PC.  All the external drives with our video are formatted NTFS PC. 

I used Paragon's NTFS for MAC (trial) and am able to write to the PC drives no problem. Even edit.  The once greyed out PC externals are now available for capture. 

The problem is I get an error trying to capture to the USB PC formatted NTFS external drives.  I can however digitize to my mac internal.  I think this is an avid capture issue at this point, since read/write is working fine between the Mac/PC drives.

Please help!!!

-Joe

Does Your PowerBook successfully digitize to a Mac formatted external drive? The Paragon software is said not to be reliable for editing. Most of this moving stuff between Mac/PC is done via Mac formatted drives with MacDrive to read/write them on the PC side. Someone complain about this solution too, but I have had no problems working like this (running the latest MacDrive).

I do the same thing with my dailies being provided on mac formatted disks. I did lots of testing with Paragon on the mac for NTFS & Macdrive with Mac formatted disks for pc and the most stable way was to go with Macdrive. Our pc assist stations media runs off mac formatted disks and it runs well 99% of the time. Of course we do get some crashes very occasionally, but updating to the latest version of macdrive seems to have fixed that.

Matt