On May 23, 2005, at 3:18 PM, x4u- request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:50:38 +1000 > From: Brett Conlon <brett_conlon at sonymusic.com.au> > Subject: Re: [X4U] Re: Ambitious DVD Project. > To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." > <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> > Message-ID: > <OFF6ADA918.F29B5D59-ONCA25700A.0009EAA3-CA25700A. > 000A17E8 at SonyMusic.com.au> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > You can also format the drive yourself in the Disk Utility app as > "MS-DOS > File System". > > Coj > > > > Nick Scalise <nickscalise at mac.com> > > > On Friday, May 20, 2005, at 07:06AM, Andre Balogh <invicta at xs4all.nl> > wrote: > > >> One question though. If I would give my external firewire HD to the >> transferring party they would have to have a Mac to record from, >> isn't it ? >> > > No snake-pit, just lively discussion. > > Just make sure that the hard drive you give them has no files on > it, and > then if they are using PC's, they can format it to FAT32 and you > will be > able to mount it and read from it fine. > > Just to be safe, ask them the same question. > > -- > Nick Scalise > nickscalise at mac.com Yes, but I would be running the External HD with the digitalized Super 8 film on my 17" ALPB to edit and clean-up before I burn the final DVD. Greetings, Andre.