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Moving video files from Windows to iMac

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This may be a really stupid question but I am suffering Mondayitis big time today! My BIL has a large amt (100GB) of video he shot on a recent holiday that he wants to put on an external hard drive for me to load on my iMac. He uses Windows so my assumption is that when I plug in the external drive to my iMac it will want to reformatt it therefore meaning I can't simply upload the video file to my machine. Am I correct? Any other ideas about how to get it from him to me aside from using DVDs because as he has pointed out it would take around 20 DVDs to do this. I do have a Windows computer and a shared docs file but I would prefer to be able to work directly from the iMac.
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The drive is most likely formatted as NTFS. Depending upon which version of OS X you have you should be able to read but not write to NTFS drives. If you have trouble reading the drive give Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X software a try.

Do you know what format the videos are in? Once you get the videos onto the Mac if you cannot open them give Windows Media Components for QuickTime - by Flip4Mac a try. If that doesn't whorl post back and we'll see what we can come up with.
 
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Couldn't tell you off the top of my head which version of OS X I have - I'm at work at the moment so can't check but I'll try it and see. I have asked my BIL what file format the video is in but he hasn't got back to me as yet. I do have Flip4Mac installed so here's hoping.
 
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This should not be a problem. Even if his drive is NTFS, you can still freely copy the files onto your Mac drive. Macs can READ FROM but not WRITE TO the NTFS drives without third-party assistance.

Once you have the footage, use MPEG STREAMCLIP to convert it to Apple Intermediate Codec and work with it in iMovie or Final Cut or Premiere or what have you in that format. 100GB of raw footage is going to require MASSIVE amounts of free space so I'd suggest at least a 500GB external drive for this project!
 
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Thanks Chas - luckily I have an external drive - 1 terrabyte - so should have the room. :Oops:
 

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