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Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Server
- By Matthew Geller
- Published May 20, 2008 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Apple Pro Training series.
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Description
- Copyright 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-51024-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-51024-2
Designed for video-production professionals, Final Cut Server sets the standard for intuitive media asset management, making it easy to manage large collections
of media files efficiently. In this Apple-authorized reference guide, system integrator Matthew Geller takes you on a comprehensive tour of the software, covering everything from tools for tracking, reviewing, and approving jobs to automating complex sequences of tasks in a busy post environment. Along the way, Geller shares essential workflows that will shave hours from your post-production jobs. You’ll learn techniques for searching, cataloging, and finding the right asset quickly, as well as how to handle large quantities of real-time HD video, audio, and still image assets in a fast-paced production environment.
Administrators will find a comprehensive overview of how to set up and configure this powerful collaboration tool, how to customize it to serve individual sites, and how to automate workflows and manage storage locations, users, and groups.
Sample Content
Online Sample Chapter
Working with Productions in Final Cut Server
Table of Contents
SECTION 1: Using Final Cut Server
Chapter 1
Final Cut Server Philosophy
Philosophy Overview – What is Final Cut Server?
Client / Server / Device paradigms and diagrams
Asset / Production / Metadata / Job paradigms and diagrams
User / Group paradigms and diagrams
Final Cut Server Interface
System Requirements – Minimum/Recommended
Downloading and Installing Final Cut Server (Java Client)
Logging into Final Cut Server
Interface Overview – Callouts of each section
Chapter 2
Working With Assets
Getting Assets into Final Cut Server
Drag & Drop Techniques
Scanning
Using Watch Folders
Adding & Editing Asset Metadata
Searching for Assets within Final Cut Server^
Understanding Search methods
Search Terms
Viewing multiple items
Using Context Menus – with Callouts
Enriching Assets in Final Cut Server
Adding & Editing Asset Metadata – with Callouts
Annotating Assets – with Callouts
Locking / Unlocking Assets
How to Re-Analyze Assets
Getting Assets out of Final Cut Server
Previewing Assets
Understanding the Cache to Use button
Drag & Drop Techniques
Checking Assets Out and In
Archiving / Purging Assets
Understanding the Copy Function
Chapter 3
Working with Final Cut Pro Projects
Adding FCP Projects to Final Cut Server
Drag & Drop Techniques
Using the Create Final Cut Pro Asset Button
Viewing Project Elements
Viewing and Editing Project Metadata
Adding Elements to Projects
Annotating Elements – with Callouts
Shot-Selection for Clip Media
Shot Selection Window – with Callouts
Saving Shot-Selection as FCP Sequences
Making frame stills
Check-Out and Check-In
Checking Out a Project
Identifying who has checked out a project
Checking In a Project
Archiving and Restoring Projects
Chapter 4
Working with Productions
Creating Productions
Production Types
Viewing and Editing Production Metadata
Adding Assets to Productions
Searching for Productions – refers back to skills taught
in "Searching for Assets," above
Viewing and Working with Production Assets
Chapter 5
Working with Devices
Searching a Device for Media – refers back to skills taught
in "Searching for Assets," above
Viewing Device Content
Viewing Individual Files
Viewing File Details – with callouts
Chapter 6
Work
Updates
Errata
Page145 - “Priority (in Metadata Map) is such that lower numbers are higher priority.” should be “Priority (in Metadata Map) is such that higher numbers are higher priority.”