Rapid Search, Preview, and Access.
Find, preview, and access the assets you need instantly through powerful search tools, customized metadata, and flexible personalized shortcuts.
Easy-to-use metadata tools
Final Cut Server lets you describe media and projects the way you want to, using just the metadata you need. Quickly choose from hundreds of predefined tags or create your own custom fields. You can also group fields in tabbed arrangements to fit your workflow. Production team members can easily add or update the content of metadata fields by making selections from pop-up menus or typing into text fields.
Versatile Production “containers”
Final Cut Server Productions are virtual containers you can create to group related assets. Productions make it easy to track status, manage project files, and link associated media for the entire production process. You can include proposals, scripts, budgets, and other documents as well as media files. Each Production is represented by a thumbnail for quick identification. Productions let you organize assets without copying them, so you can include the same assets in any number of Productions — with no increase in storage requirements.
Powerful, layered searches
For a basic search, type text into a Spotlight-style search field. For greater precision, the advanced search option allows you to use pop-up menus to choose search filters based on metadata fields. You can search the entire asset catalogue or a specific Production. Your Final Cut Server administrator can customize these filters, so all the options you need will be at your fingertips as you search for assets.
Personalized workspaces
Create any number of Productions for your personal use or share them with just your team. You can also save common or regular searches as Smart Searches in your personal workspace and see the results with a single click.
Time-saving previews
Because Final Cut Server creates low-resolution browse proxies during cataloguing, you can screen proxies right from the catalogue as you evaluate assets. Viewing a low-resolution proxy is significantly faster than opening and playing a large, high-resolution HD video file.
Optimized bandwidth use
Final Cut Server seamlessly adjusts to the bandwidth of your network configuration when delivering files for editing. If you’re editing over a LAN or WAN, Final Cut Server copies all the referenced assets to a cache on the client workstation. If you’re editing over a high-bandwidth network powered by Xsan, the system allows you to begin working immediately with the files in their original locations, without copying them to your workstation.
Robust access controls
Access controls are a key element in any collaborative production environment. Final Cut Server access controls let you browse the catalogue quickly by displaying only the materials that are relevant to your work. They also protect your assets from unauthorized use by allowing only the right people to see the right assets at the right times. Final Cut Server makes it easy to define access permissions for individual assets or for an entire Production.
Seamless archiving and retrieval
Archive systems store assets offline. Final Cut Server helps you safely archive assets and retrieve them later if they are needed. To protect against archiving an asset that is still in use, Final Cut Server shows a warning message that lists all the Final Cut Pro projects linked to that asset. After an asset is archived, its associated thumbnails, poster frames, proxies, and metadata are retained and fully searchable in the catalogue. Restoring the asset is as simple as plug-and-play — just connect the archive device and click the Restore button.
