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We have 3 Focus FS-4 Pro 80GB HD units that work with 3 Sony DVCAM camcorders. We edit on FCP 5 and 6 on Quad G5s and one Intel G5 with Mac OS 10.4.11 and 10.5. We work in DV primarily.
Recently, we began to do a large number of multi-cam programs which need multiclip editing on FCP. Being FAT 32, the FS-4 breaks the QuickTime DV files into 2GB chunks. This poses an editing problem. At the present time, after importing all the 2GB files to the computer/FCP, we have to stitch them together in the FCP timeline, export the resulting timeline into a single QT movie and reimport that into FCP for multiclip editing. This takes OVER HALF THE TIME it would take to digitize the three tapes(using a one hour 3-cam show as an example).
Is there a solution? A speedy Mac utility that combines the 2GB Quicktime files into one large file? Or some other workflow that we have missed?
I may write to Focus to see if the drive could be reformatted into NTSF without losing a lot of functionality. Have not done this yet. Don’t expect a positive answer. Know they have an FS-5 with 90min clips, but can't replace the FS-4s yet.
Any help will be very appreciated as we are bogged down with this now.

If I might offer a little bit of a different perspective.
Having worked a number times with multi-clips and lots of footage (3 day long one on one interviews as an example) There really isn't any need to concatenate all of the footage from one camera into a single clip. I have never stayed on any clip for 5 minutes (~2GB of DVCPro HD 720/30p).
The process of the edit just doesn't demand that you work with all the footage at once. Work with the segments you have and then move on to the next. I would assume at some point your going to pull shots from some other time in the shoot to fix a reaction or a camera error as well as any number of other things editing requires, don't get caught up in the tech and end up making more work and files.
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