Mac to PC transfer?

I have about half a terabyte of R3D files I need to transfer from a mac-formatted external drive to a pc-formatted one.

How the hell do I do this? I have access to a mac and a pc, but neither recognizes the other's drive.

try the red user forums
i dont think too many people have experience with red here

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If I'm reading this right, the issue isn't the R3D files so much as the hard drive format.
IIRC, OS X will read/write NTFS formatted hard drives. Check this article...http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382 It's a use at your own risk thing, since it involves teminal entries.

You can also look at Macdrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive to open a Mac-formatted drive under Windows.

There's a freeware app for reading Mac volumes on Windows:

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images.
It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).

HFSExplorer allows you to browse your Mac volumes with a graphical file system browser, extract files (copy to hard disk), view detailed information about the volume and create disk images from the volume.

Thanks to all for the speedy replies.

After Brandt's post I got the 5 day trial of Macdrive. It worked like a champ - transferred over 400 gigs while I slept; woke up eager to sort out hundreds of files with names like "F002_C001_061593_001.R3D" instead of "Scene_7A_take_2."

Thank you, thank you, thank you

late to the party but for any one else - both macs and pcs read/write to FAT32 formatted drives - although their is a 4 gig limit to any one file.

Yup, the 4GB limit is the rub. I recall from in the past that macs can read NTFS (I think I had that working, but I'm not positive), but I couldn't find anything that makes it look like a native setup.

Kreutzer, I'm surprised that your files were renamed. That makes no sense to me at all. How did the cleanup go?

They weren't renamed. That's how they came out of the camera.

I'm sure the DP could have named them as we shot; I didn't think to ask him. All the footage is slated so it's not a big deal.

have a studio with a few macs, and we decided it was stupid to keep all our files separate in different folders on different machines, and bought a PC windows XP server with a massive 1TB hard drive to store all our data on.

We hooked it up, set it up with all the machines and it seems to be working fine. Now this a massive quantity of files we're talking about here.. close to 300GB of all kinds of image files, photoshop, office, entourage backups and more... And they all need to go from the macs to the PC.

But every few files there is a problem.. either the file names are too long, or there's some kind of read error.. and every time there's a problem, the transfer stops and I have to figure out where to start it from again.

Is there a solution for this? and please don't say "get a mac server" buying a new mac now is just way to expensive.. this tiny little Asus pc cost about $500 and is faster than most of the macs we got.. I'm very happy with it.

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Apple Retail Stores offer several levels of data transfer services. For further information on PC Data Transfer services, contact your local Apple Retail Store. In addition to the Apple Retail Stores, many Apple Specialists, Apple Resellers, and Apple Authorized Service Providers also provide various levels of PC to Mac data transfers. To locate an Apple Specialist in your area, use the Find Service website.

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