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Transferring Project and Media Files Between Avid Editing Systems
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Transferring Files Between Macintosh and Windows Systems
The following table shows the available methods for transferring files between Macintosh and
Windows systems.
Method Requirements Restrictions
All Files (can be used as media drives)
External SCSI drive None For compatibility information, see the Avid Drive Striping
Tables, which are available by searching for “drive
striping” on the Avid Customer Support Knowledge Base.
Fibre Channel drive None For compatibility information, see the Avid Drive Striping
Tables.
External 1394
(FireWire) drive
None Cannot be used as a media drive for Symphony.
For compatibility information, see the Avid Drive Striping
Tables.
Project Files, OMF Files, and AAF Files (including embedded media)
Server-based network None None.
External 1394
(FireWire) drive or
USB2 drive
None Size of the disk.
Floppy disk PC-formatted disk Holds 1.4 MB.
CD-ROM None Do not use ISO 9660 format, which truncates the file
names. Files copied from a CD-ROM to a Windows system
retain the read-only attribute. To change this attribute, see
the Windows documentation
DVD None None, if you use the native DVD format.
Files copied from a DVD to a Windows system retain the
read-only attribute. To change this attribute, see the
Windows documentation.
E-mail E-mail software that
supports attachments
See the documentation for the e-mail software.
FTP Network access and FTP
software on both systems
See the FTP software documentation.