In Snow Leopard Server, Apple has introduced a whole new way to make Podcast workflows. It’s now simple to use, but still with amazing and powerful new automations that give Podcast Producer admins the ability to configure a host of new options quickly and easily. To get started, first setup Podcast Producer. Then, fire up Podcast Composer and go through 7 quick steps. First, provide a default name, author name and title for your workflow, then click on step 2. In step two you’re going to configure the source of the video and audio. For each of the three options, Single Source, Dual Source and Montage, you’ll have an i…
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Comic on Backing up Final Cut Server
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Video on Creating Productions in Final Cut Server
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Customizing the Final Cut Server Webstart on Xsanity
Xsanity just posted an article I did on customizing the Final Cut Server Webstart. This is the page that you go to in order to install the Final Cut Server client software from your server. The article starts with building links and customizing the URL and then touches on a little customization of the pages towards the end. Hope you find it helpful.
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Accessing the Final Cut Server Database Remotely
Before I get started: By remote, I mean from another machine – I sincerely hope that you will not be opening your Final Cut Server database to the WAN. So again, please be careful with this as there is no security around the database and you will be limiting access via IP for now. This article lays the beginning framework for a series (no promises on when the next in the series will be posted) on clustering the stored role of Final Cut Server, which provides the database (back end functionality) of Final Cut Server. All of this is done using built in tools for Final Cut Server. Don’t do…
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Final Cut Server Exam
I finally got around to taking that Final Cut Server exam this week. It was pretty straight forward. I think there is definitely a methodology to writing exams. I wrote a few for Brainbench and because their structure was extremely laid out really got to learn a lot about the methodology to writing questions. I liked the fact that Apple is adding more and more questions where you click on the appropriate item on a screenshot, I look forward to scenario simulations. Microsoft exams mostly require you to get at least one simulator correct in order to pass the exam, some vendors have gone to simulation-only, but the closest Apple…
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Using Final Cut Server to edit over a WAN?
Maybe you will, maybe not… In terms of how it taxes the network, clips will typically be 5 to 25MB per second (big B there By the Way) according to how many frames per second and other design considerations. Obviously even if there is a 5MB pipe, the clips are likely too big to edit given a live master asset so you’d need to cache locally, which means for each clip (and however many clips in a project) you’re talking about that much data caching to the local host before you can start editing. To put this into a pseudo-real-world scenario (taking collisions, encryption and network latency out of the…
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Another Widget: FCSMonitor
So the more the merrier, right? Another widget, this time dedicated to Final Cut Server is now available for download. I also went ahead and posted the https://krypted.com/ reader as well. Both widgets are available here. Please let me know if you have any problems with either one of them. –Charles
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Xsan Monitor Widget Released (kinda')
I am releasing the Xsan Monitor that I've mentioned as alpha code. There are still some updates I may do but for now I'm putting it out there for those who feel this is the kind of thing they can take use of. Basically, it's a Dashboard Widget that can run on an Xsan client or metadata controller. When running it will display the CPU and RAM statistics of the Xsan processes. If it's the kind of thing you could use then please feel free to give it a test drive and let me know what you think at cedge@318.com or krypted@mac.com.
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Final Cut Server and Xsan Testers Needed
I’ve finally finished writing a pair of Dashboard Widgets that monitor Final Cut Server and Xsan processor and RAM intensity. A third on FileMaker Server should be complete within the next few days. If you’re interested in testing them let me know. Screens below: