Ben Rubinstein
Active member
Hi,
I've just found out that macs will not read sessions made while on a PC. We shoot manuscripts in our repro studio tethered, each book or manuscript is a new session, very convenient, very easy to catalog. We now have over 1000 sessions, each a unique manuscript and some 150,000 files.
We are outsourcing the cropping work and preparation for the web but have found that C1 on a mac refuses to read a session made on our main machine, a PC.
I called up my dealer who suggested packing the files as EIP and then they can be worked on without needing to use sessions on the mac but you cannot batch convert multiple sessions to EIP, you have to wait for each session to finish before converting another session. With over 1000 sessions this would be impossible.
Please note we are using 6.4.4, we haven't had the downtime to upgrade to 7 as yet, just haven't had the time to learn the new tools, check the tethering is behaving, etc.
Can anyone give any suggestions? It seems moronic at best that the sessions can only be used on either mac or pc and are not interchangeable. We were about to buy a macbook pro for our second shooting station and for travelling with when shooting works abroad, everything points to the mac being more stable for tethering, but if there is no solution then we cannot. It also makes me worry about whether the sessions are at all archival for storing changes or instead dangerous as a future time waster.
I've just found out that macs will not read sessions made while on a PC. We shoot manuscripts in our repro studio tethered, each book or manuscript is a new session, very convenient, very easy to catalog. We now have over 1000 sessions, each a unique manuscript and some 150,000 files.
We are outsourcing the cropping work and preparation for the web but have found that C1 on a mac refuses to read a session made on our main machine, a PC.
I called up my dealer who suggested packing the files as EIP and then they can be worked on without needing to use sessions on the mac but you cannot batch convert multiple sessions to EIP, you have to wait for each session to finish before converting another session. With over 1000 sessions this would be impossible.
Please note we are using 6.4.4, we haven't had the downtime to upgrade to 7 as yet, just haven't had the time to learn the new tools, check the tethering is behaving, etc.
Can anyone give any suggestions? It seems moronic at best that the sessions can only be used on either mac or pc and are not interchangeable. We were about to buy a macbook pro for our second shooting station and for travelling with when shooting works abroad, everything points to the mac being more stable for tethering, but if there is no solution then we cannot. It also makes me worry about whether the sessions are at all archival for storing changes or instead dangerous as a future time waster.