Just a heads up seeing as how I lost a few hours of my life discovering the source of a strange problem with this combination.
AJA's Ki Pro Mini recorder can record Pro Res or DNxHD to CF cards. It formats the cards as HFS+ volumes. No problem I thought, I have MacDrive, even ProRes I've dealt with in the past. So when someone was having no joy offloading their files I put my hand up. We had tried it using a Mac but the only portable media the gent had was NTFS and OSX will not write to NTFS partitions.
I tried every which way to get this to work on my PCs but the CF card simply refused to mount. Put a FAT32 CF card into the reader, that worked, tried different readers, read every post on MediaFour's forum, no one was reporting exactly this problem but the admin did mention something about MacDrive needing Windows to mount the drive for their code to work and Windows wasn't even doing that. There was also a suggestion of forcing Windows to assign a drive letter through Disk Manager but Win7 refused me even that.
Some more Googling found the answer. It just plain doesn't work and that was from AJA. The problem is that every USB CF card reader they've tried (enough to assume all of them) causes Windows to load FAT32 drivers and that causes Windows to see the volume as unmountable. The only solution is to use a SATA CF card reader and they're rare. With that one can either connect it using SATA or use a SATA > USB dock. The one SATA CF card reader known to solve this problem is the "Syba Best Connectivity 2.5" SATA/USB 2.0 to Compact Flash Adapter" which thankfully is available from Amazon for around $10.
Hope this saves someone a few hours.
Bob.
AJA's Ki Pro Mini recorder can record Pro Res or DNxHD to CF cards. It formats the cards as HFS+ volumes. No problem I thought, I have MacDrive, even ProRes I've dealt with in the past. So when someone was having no joy offloading their files I put my hand up. We had tried it using a Mac but the only portable media the gent had was NTFS and OSX will not write to NTFS partitions.
I tried every which way to get this to work on my PCs but the CF card simply refused to mount. Put a FAT32 CF card into the reader, that worked, tried different readers, read every post on MediaFour's forum, no one was reporting exactly this problem but the admin did mention something about MacDrive needing Windows to mount the drive for their code to work and Windows wasn't even doing that. There was also a suggestion of forcing Windows to assign a drive letter through Disk Manager but Win7 refused me even that.
Some more Googling found the answer. It just plain doesn't work and that was from AJA. The problem is that every USB CF card reader they've tried (enough to assume all of them) causes Windows to load FAT32 drivers and that causes Windows to see the volume as unmountable. The only solution is to use a SATA CF card reader and they're rare. With that one can either connect it using SATA or use a SATA > USB dock. The one SATA CF card reader known to solve this problem is the "Syba Best Connectivity 2.5" SATA/USB 2.0 to Compact Flash Adapter" which thankfully is available from Amazon for around $10.
Hope this saves someone a few hours.
Bob.