

After the files transfer to that 'in between' drive, we then have to connect it to their editing computer and transfer it to their external editing hard drive. and we use ExFAT because the files are always to large for just regular FAT). Since we can't connect their external drive to the windows computer since it won't recognize, we have to get an 'in between' drive, that is formatted as NTFS or ExFAT (we have several, some are just different. The issue comes with when they need to transfer files off the switcher and onto their editing computer.

So we have external drives that are connected to those iMacs formatted as Mac Extended. We also have the citizens that use the facility edit on Premiere on iMac's. However, Tricaster only runs on a windows OS, so all the files are saved on an NTFS drive inside the system. We have people shoot their shows inside our studio using the Newtek Tricaster system. We highly recommend paying for a third-party NTFS driver if you need to do this as the other solutions don’t work as well and are more work to set up.I work at an access center, and i'm trying to think of alternatives to make production a little faster. In fact, we’ve had it corrupt data before. It isn’t guaranteed to work properly and could potentially cause problems with your NTFS file system. However, it’s off by default and requires some messing around in the terminal to enable it.

Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Write Support: The macOS operating system includes experimental support for writing to NTFS drives.It’s slower than paid solutions and automatically mounting NTFS partitions in read-write mode is a security risk. Unfortunately, this take a bit of extra work to install, especially on Macs with the new System Integrity Protection feature, added in 10.11 El Capitan. Free Third-Party Drivers: There’s a free and open-source NTFS driver you can install on a Mac to enable write support.These are paid solutions, but they’re easy to install and should offer better performance than the free solutions below. Paid Third-Party Drivers: There are third-party NTFS drivers for Mac that you can install, and they’ll work quite well.There are several options for this, and you’ll need to choose one:
