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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 admin · Permalink · 3 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 admin · 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 admin · 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 admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Podcast Producer on Your iPhone

PCP Remote is a great little application for initiating Podcast Producer workflows from your iPhone. In the current iteration you can also record audio tracks from the iPhone and use them in workflows as well. Oh, and it can connect to multiple Podcast Producer servers to kick off workflows. Since one workflow can summon another [...]

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 6:09 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Problems Opening Final Cut Server client?

One thing to try, especially if you get an error that Mac OS X is ‘Unable to launch the application.’ is to do a get-info (command-I when clicked on the application) for the application and then check the box for ‘Open in 32-bit mode’. I have actually found running applications in 32-bit mode to resolve [...]

Posted on October 30, 2009 at 4:57 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Rough Cut Editor for Final Cut Server

Artbox allowed you to generate Final Cut Projects. But that was a feature lost when Apple acquired Artbox and turned it into Final Cut Server. Apparently I’m not the only one that noticed and wanted this feature. Andre Aulich, of ConSol in Germany published a movie awhile back showing how they had developed a similar [...]

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Assigning Poster Frames Manually in Podcast Producer

Podcast Producer will automatically generate a poster frame for each video that is generated. The poster frame is a frame of the video that is automatically generated and then applied to the video. The poster frame that each video has can therefore be a bit random. However, you can use any image that you like [...]