{"id":106405,"date":"2018-10-24T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=106405"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:37:15","slug":"mport-footage-os-x-extended-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/mport-footage-os-x-extended-card\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Import Footage to a Windows System from an OS X Extended Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you format your CFast Card the wrong way when setting up a new project? Yeah, we did too. Here’s are a couple of ways you can fix it.<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m even not going to hide behind a pretense here. I made this mistake last week, and after connecting the CFast Card reader to my Windows computer to see that it was not reading the card, I thought I was about to be on the phone politely asking the client to return to reshoot the whole day because the card had corrupted after the final shot.<\/p>\n

Then, I remembered that the Ursa Mini asks you which system format you want for the CFast Card when you start a new project. In the heat of the moment, I had not chosen exFAT and accidentally selected OS X Extended, and since I only have Windows systems, I was out of luck. Thankfully, some companies have foreseen such events and have release software that will connect an OS X Extended formatted card or drive to your PC.<\/p>\n

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Image via Peter Gudella<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Are you unsure about the difference between the two formats? It comes down to journaling. According to\u00a0Tom Patrick<\/a><\/u>\u00a0of\u00a0Macintosh-Data-Recovery.com<\/a>,<\/u><\/p>\n

Journaling is a Mac OS X feature that is extremely helpful in protecting the system against the problems that arises due to power failures, hardware failures and directory corruptions. When the journaling is enabled on\u00a0Mac, it keeps record entries of the changes to the files present on the disk. These entries are maintained in a special type of data structure called ‘Journal<\/strong>.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Therefore, Mac OS X Extended (HFS+) is the recommended recording format. In the (unlikely) circumstance that your media storage becomes corrupted, journaled data is more accessible for recovery, whereas exFAT does not support journaling.<\/p>\n

However, Mac OS X Extended is only natively supported by Mac OS, whereas both Mac OS and Windows support exFAT. Like I said, there are programs on the market that can help you get your footage onto a windows system. There are even a few tutorials on how to dive deep into the catacombs of your pc to alter some code to show the connected drive, but to keep things simple, we’re going to look at just two applications: HFSExplorere and MacDrive.<\/p>\n

As a side note, while I wrote this article for those who have incorrectly formatted their camera’s media storage, all of the solutions presented herein are viable for standard flash and disk drives.<\/p>\n

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MacDrive <\/strong><\/h3>\n

MacDrive<\/a> from Media Four is a $50 application, and it does a lot more than connect Mac-formatted drives to your Windows pc. You can repair the drive, reformat it (including back to exFAT), create and partition Mac disks, and so on. The most beneficial factor for me is that upon installing the software, much like a RAW or audio codec, the CFast card drive was viewable in my Windows directory, and I didn\u2019t even have to open the software.<\/p>\n

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Image via Mediafour.<\/p><\/div>\n

While there is a price tag attached to the software, you do get a five-day free trial. It\u2019s common for many companies to offer a redacted version for the trial use of the software; you can convert five files but no more, you can apply a grade but can\u2019t export, and so forth. However, MacDrive offers full use of the software for five days, and then you have to purchase the full version. Hopefully, I won\u2019t be in the position of trying to import footage from an OS X Extended drive again, but if I did, MacDrive would be worth the price.<\/p>\n

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HFSExplorer<\/h3>\n

HFSExplorer<\/a> is a free application, but it is slightly more complicated than MacDrive. It also requires Java, which many have grown weary of installing due to security issues. However, that’s the price you pay for free software. Unlike MacDrive, you won\u2019t be able to view the connected drive in your file directory, and you will have to access the files through the software itself.<\/p>\n

To do so, hit File > Load File System From Device<\/em>, and then extract to a new destination.<\/p>\n

That seems easy, right? Well, this is why I said it’s slightly more complicated than MacDrive \u2014 because it’s slightly troublesome loading a file system when you can’t see it. Therefore, you will need to autodetect the drive. If you’re having trouble following along, I suggest watching this tutorial from\u00a0Raynel Gonzalez<\/a>.<\/p>\n