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| Hi Anders: I don't think that anyone chimed in on your drive format question yet. If the the Window/PC USB hard drive is formatted as FAT32 or ExFAT, Mac OS X will read and write. If the drive is NTFS, Mac OS X will read only; however, a third party driver called Paragon NTFS for Mac will enable full read/write with NTFS formatted drives (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/). Windows runs well via Apple Bootcamp (not so well with Parallels), if you happen to need a Windows machine in addition to just mounting Windows formatted drives. Also, if you're using CC, it's possible to have AE, PR, PS and AI on he Windows side of a Mac as well. -Warren On 6/28/14 4:07 AM, "Anders Sundstedt" <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote: >A basic question regarding going for a MacBook Pro: > >Can you connect PC/Windows USB hard drives to a MacBook Pro and access >the >files on it (read/write)? > >Thanks >Anders > >-----Original Message----- >From: KO MARUYAMA >Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 8:18 AM >To: After Effects Mail List >Subject: Re: [AE] AE on a laptop vs iMac > >Chris, > >I was in the same boat. I love working on my older 15" MBP. >Bring the project to the studio to do the heavy lifting. > >PROS: portable, attach thunderbolt as necessary (storage/monitor), bring >work anywhere >CONS: expensive, not as powerful, bring work everywhere > >Ae, Pr and even C4D run well enough on it, but big renders should get >ported >to a desktop. > >Ko >MBP 15" >2.7GHz i7 >16GB RAM > > > >On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote: > >> Just picking the collective brains of the list... >> >> I have never had a laptop or any sort of portable computer, my home >> machine has been an iMac for the past 10years. My current imac has just >> died and I'm now thinking about replacing it with a MacBook Pro and a >>big >> monitor. >> >> In the past I have worked from home considerably but currently I do >>very >> little work from home, and so having a powerful desktop machine seems a >> bit old fashioned. The portability of a MacBook versus an iMac is very >> appealing. Storage is not an issue because I already use an external >> storage system anyway. >> >> Any thoughts on the pros/cons of working with AE on a laptop- >>specifically >> a retina MacBook Pro - versus an iMac? >> >> - Chris >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > >+---End of message---+ >To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > > >+---End of message---+ >To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
