Archive for the ‘Final Cut Server’ Category

Scripting Video Changes in Lion: avconvert, pcastaction & podcast

The avconvert command is a new addition in OS X Lion that allows administrators to quickly and easily convert video from one format to another using presets for video conversion. The presets are mostly common Apple formats tuned to specific devices. In its simplest form, avconvert uses a preset, a source and then an output [...]

Integrating Final Cut Server with MediaBeacon

Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:11 pm by Charles · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Amazon S3 File Size Limits

Back in November of 2008 I did an article awhile back on a way to use Amazon’s S3 to hook into Final Cut Server. At the time though, S3 had a pretty big limitation in that it wasn’t really suitable for backing up large video files as an archive device for Final Cut Server. But [...]

Posted on December 10, 2010 at 2:50 am by Charles · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The Xserve Has Been Discontinued

The Xserve has officially been discontinued by Apple and will no longer be sold after January, 2011. Mac OS X Server will still be available on Mac Mini and Mac Pro (which will be the only option for Metadata Controllers on Mac OS X). Apple has produced a transition guide, available here. I do like [...]

Posted on November 5, 2010 at 7:06 am by Charles · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Archive & Restore Assets with fcsvr_client

Final Cut Server has an option to archive and restore assets. When archiving an asset, the asset will be moved to a file system path that is represented by the device ID. The archival and restore can be done using the steps shown in this video: The process of archival and restore can be kicked [...]

Posted on June 7, 2010 at 8:00 am by Charles · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Scripting Productions and Assets in Final Cut Server

When you’re integrating Final Cut Server with other products, you often find yourself writing scripts to perform various tasks. One of those tasks might be to create a new project, or a production as it’s called in Final Cut Server. Because a production can have a number of attributes, a great way to do this [...]

Analyzing Assets with fcsvr_client in Final Cut Server

Sometimes Final Cut Server can’t create proxies as part of the analyze phase of ingesting an asset. Maybe it’s busy, maybe it’s doing too large a batch or maybe it’s just having a hard day. Either way, sometimes it just doesn’t analyze like it’s supposed to. Therefore, you can analyze an asset using the fcsvr_client [...]

Posted on June 3, 2010 at 7:35 am by Charles · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Asset Paths In Final Cut Server from the CLI

Final Cut Server devices are locations where files are stored. Locations are then set using that device as a relative path within Final Cut Server. For example, if you have a device called MySAN it might end up being /dev/3. When you import an asset into Final Cut Server, the asset is given an asset [...]

Posted on June 2, 2010 at 1:24 pm by Charles · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Mac OS X Server Groups on LinkedIn

In case you haven’t seen them there are a number of groups for Mac OS X Systems Administrators on LinkedIn: Mac OS X Server: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?&gid=138085 Final Cut Server: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=138082 Xsan: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=138084 MacEnterprise: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1774398

FCS 1.5.1 Story on Xsanity

Posted a little whatnot on FCS 1.5.1 over at Xsantiy, here. Hope you enjoy!

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:58 pm by Charles · Permalink · Leave a comment
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