Moving Between PC and Mac

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by ninetto makavejev on Nov 5, 2009 at 8:37:39 pm Premiere, like the rest of the CS4 Suite, is cross-platform: so your PremProj from the PC will open on the Mac. You may have to re-link the media if drive paths are different. But beware(!) if you e.g. are capturing on either platform in exclusive codecs... i.e. if you capture HDV on Mac you will not necessarily be able to edit the files on your PC... since the Quicktime HDV codec will not be installed by CS4 on a PC... etc. good luck, ninetto Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by Alex Udell on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33:40 pm I've been doing some reading.... and it appears that the Cineform Codecs are cross platform compatible. could be a good solution for at least standardizing the source material. Alex Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by ninetto makavejev on Nov 6, 2009 at 9:30:46 am Hard to understand what your problem is. What version of OSX are you running? OSX understands (reads) all PC-drive formats excepting some RAID arrays. It can write to FAT32 PC-drives and with the help of Paragon's tool can also write NFTS drives. On the PC side you will need MacDrive to read/write Apple HFS-formatted drives. Both MediaFour MacDrive and Paragon NFTS work fine for cross-platform solutions. good luck, n.m. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by Mark Hollis on Nov 6, 2009 at 8:32:09 pm OK, you are going from Premiere Pro to Final Cut Pro, so you need to find a way to transfer the Project into an XML file that the Apple application can read. You can export your Premiere Pro sequence as an AAF (advanced authoring format) from the application. There are some things that won't translate, but the link will detail those things. Apple's Final Cut Studio 7 will import AAF files (also exports them). You are limited, in some cases, to a 2G AAF file if you are trying to include media in that file. But Final Cut should be able to batch-capture all of your media. As to re-linking media, I cannot say that Final Cut will re-link. But an Apple Macintosh that runs OS X 10.5 or 10.6 can read all PC-formatted disk drives. Your Final Cut Pro editor should transfer all materials to his or her own drives (or array) on the Final Cut workstation and not work off a FAT 32 or NTFS drive, as FAT 32 limits file sizes to 2 Gigabytes and NTFS may not be supported in Final Cut Pro. Do some tests first. Also, do not anticipate that Adobe Premiere Pro will work under Windows 7. There are at least two people in this forum with bad Windows 7 experiences with Premiere Pro. What if there were no hypothetical questions? Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by Richard DePaso on Nov 12, 2009 at 7:11:47 am I am having a big problem with Premiere and Windows 7. Once we updated to Windows 7 the machine won't read MOV files of any sort. I get an "Error 1856" if I try to open a MOV file. Itunes plays them fine but Quicktime Player won't even open. We have version 7.6.4 quicktime installed, with the Quicktime Pro registration. We also have the Quicktime MPEG2 plugin installed. We've uninstalled and reinstalled. Tried loading a 64 bit Itunes download we had and just today the latest on the Apple Quicktime download site which is only 32 bit. Premiere Pro is updated to 4.2 Nothing works. Machine is quad core AMD 9950 8Gig Ram Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. Richard DePaso creators@computer.net Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by Jon Barrie on Nov 12, 2009 at 10:01:29 am Have you tried to roll back QT to a 7.5.x version. I find QT always ruin something with every couple of updates and rolling back a couple of versions work fine. I've Been using win7 and ppro with qt files since RC 7100. I am running with 7.6.4 and haven't had a problem yet?... Jon Barrie aJBprods www.jonbarrie.net Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Moving Between PC and Mac by Mark Hollis on Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06:10 pm If you are looking for an old version of Quicktime, you can find it here. For Quicktime Pro owners: Be sure you save your Quicktime Pro registration number before you roll back your version so that you can apply the registration to the earlier version and not have to buy Quicktime Pro again. I would not have been so eager to upgrade to Windows 7 on my computer if it were used for actual production or post-production work. What if there were no hypothetical questions? Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index