My dad has gotten me a western digital 500gb harddrive. When i went to transfer some audio and video files from a video project from one computer, it doesnt let me move them to the harddrive. It seems as though the drive has protection against media files. So really, i dont know the use of this anymore. Is there a way, when im shooting digital video, to record straight to this drive so that i can bypass the capture process? I hope i can find a good use for it, so please let me know.
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As the poster said above me, you'll have to format it. All drives come in FAT32 format, which can only support files up to around 4gb, and it will fail without a descriptive warning when it hits that point. Use Disk Utility to format it into HFS+ (the Mac OS Journaled format). Then you can put whatever size files on it you want.
Recording straight to the drive is not possible without extra hardware.
Recording straight to the drive is not possible without extra hardware.
Western Digital drives come ready-formatted in HFS+ for Mac. So assuming the drive was new and clean when you got a hold of it, it should already be in HFS+. Nonetheless, backing up whatever you've got on there, reformatting, and trying it again isn't a terrible idea.
Andrew.
Andrew.
Um...... That's using the capture process...
There is no way to get clips from your camcorder directly to a external hard drive without extra hardware.
You could use some sort of DVR set top box w/HDMI input and some sort of external storage ports to get clips from the camera onto a hard drive without the capture process (or computer in general). though i don't know if there is any product like this currently on the market.
Only the Mac branded ones are, the rest are FAT32. But like you said, it's easier just to format.