Suggested Workflow for PC/Mac file transfers?

Hello. I work for a large corporation doing video editing. Currently all my hardware is Windows-based. I have a editing station and a laptop, both running Windows. In the future it's possible that I may switch both my workstation and laptop to Mac .
In the meantime, I occasionally acquire files from other users within the corporation. Some users are on a Mac.
Currently, I have a USB external hard drive that I work directly from. This is formatted to FAT32 so that both Macs and PCs can easily access it. Unfortunately, the 2 GB size limitation keeps causing all sorts of problems with my video editing, so I'm looking for a new solution.
Open to all suggestions, here's what I had in mind:
I have a lot of budget flexibility, so cost isn't much of an issue. I would buy an external hard drive, format it for HFS+ (or whatever the Mac format is), then I'd simply use that as a shuttle drive. To put the files back onto my windows system, I'd use some software to do the file transfer. Anybody know of such software?

Bumping an old topic.
I just realized that incase I get a Mac, it'd be nice to get a software that comes with installation discs for both systems, so I could transfer NTFS -> Mac computer, and HFS+ -> PC computer.
Any ideas? Zero possibility of such software?

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