My experience:
I'm a video editor -- all Mac at home, and all PC at work.
I format any drives that I intend to use in both places -- this includes thumb drives as well as 250gb or 2tb externals -- as ExFAT, via Disk Utility on the Mac.
This way I can load generic material that I take from job to job (video backgrounds, sound effects, etc.) at home and then just connect the drives to the PCs at work.
It also allows me to copy samples of the work I've cut -- many times well over 4gb -- from the PC's and bring them home to archive & use for my sample reel, created on my Macs.
So far I've had no problems.
BTW -- a DVD is 4.7gb, and a dual layer is, I guess, double that. So it it's full and you want to copy it to a drive, you'll have a problem unless it's formatted as ExFAT.
I'm a video editor -- all Mac at home, and all PC at work.
I format any drives that I intend to use in both places -- this includes thumb drives as well as 250gb or 2tb externals -- as ExFAT, via Disk Utility on the Mac.
This way I can load generic material that I take from job to job (video backgrounds, sound effects, etc.) at home and then just connect the drives to the PCs at work.
It also allows me to copy samples of the work I've cut -- many times well over 4gb -- from the PC's and bring them home to archive & use for my sample reel, created on my Macs.
So far I've had no problems.
BTW -- a DVD is 4.7gb, and a dual layer is, I guess, double that. So it it's full and you want to copy it to a drive, you'll have a problem unless it's formatted as ExFAT.