Blackmagicdesign URSA Mini - Preparing Media on Mac; Preparing Media on Windows

Preparing Media on Mac
Use the Disk Utility application included with Mac OS to format your CFast card, SD card, or
SSD in the HFS+ or exFAT formats. Remember to back up anything important from your
mediafirst as all data will be lost when it is formatted.
1 Connect the storage media to your computer using a SD card reader, dock or adapter,
and dismiss any message offering to use your media for Time Machine backups.
2 Go to applications/utilities and launch Disk Utility.
3 Click on the disk icon for your camera's storage media and then click the ‘erase’ tab.
4 Set the ‘format’ to ‘Mac OS extended (journaled)’ or ‘exFAT’.
5 Type a ‘name’ for the new volume and then click ‘erase’. Your camera's storage media
will quickly be formatted and made ready for use.
Use Disk Utility on Mac OS to erase your camera's storage
media in the Mac OS extended (journaled) or exFAT format
Preparing Media on Windows
The ‘format’ dialog box can format your camera's storage media in the exFAT format on a
Windows PC. Remember to back up anything important from your media first as all data will be
lost when it is formatted.
1 Connect the your camera's storage media to your computer using an external reader/
writer orSSD dock or adapter.
2 Open the ‘start’ menu or ‘start’ screen and choose ‘computer’.
Right click on your camera's storage media.
3 From the contextual menu, choose ‘format’.
4 Set the file system to 'exFAT' and the allocation unit size to 128 kilobytes.
5 Type a volume label, select ‘quick format’ and click ‘start’.
6 Your storage media will quickly be formatted and made ready for use.
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