Instead of having the hard drive in a FAT32 format that both systems can recognize for initial formatting, the drives came pre-configured for Mac. It can work on Windows, but G-Drive's workflow for formatting hard drives on and for a Windows environment is convoluted. The first night after shooting we started to format hard drives and discovered that G-Drive is specifically designed for Mac. Our camera system was the RED Epic with normal SSD magazines. We used G-Drive branded hard drives with 3TB each. The film was low budget and slightly inexperienced, so we received our hard drives on the first day of production. We decided a conservative approach and felt formatting the hard drives for Windows was our best solution. I haven't had much experience with ExFat, which holds larger file sizes and is cross platform. The production was opening formatting all of the hard drives FAT32 so they can work on either a Windows or Mac OS, but I advised against it for the above reason. Remember, a FAT32 file system is largely unsuitable for video production because of the file size limitations. Per usual, I checked in with the post-team to figure out their OS and together advised the production on which types of hard drives to get. The production I was shooting decided to have post-production be a Windows OS based workflow. I will go in depth on what I learned and end with a simple tutorial on how to fix the problem. This website is a great resource to search for solutions to film specific problems and I feel my experience with G Drives, partition maps, formatting, and Red Undead can help others who may end up in the same situation. I wanted to share a problem I recently encountered on a feature I shot in May/June of 2017.
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