Technical Specifications
Automatic Asset Cataloging
- Scanning support for:
- Local file systems
- AFP network shares
- SMB/CIFS network shares
- FTP servers
- Xsan storage volumes
- SAN storage volumes (when attached as local shares)
- Full, purge, and add-only scans with include and exclude wildcards
- Production scans to create Productions for each folder in a file system hierarchy
- Automatic thumbnail, poster frame, and browse proxy creation
- Resolution options for thumbnails, poster frames, and browse proxies
- Preference setting to create ProRes 422 edit proxies for Final Cut Pro at the same time as browse proxies
Search Tools
- Simple text search
- Advanced keyword searching with Boolean - and + operators
- Advanced metadata field searching
- Text: Equals, Not Equals, Not Equal and Not Blank, Contains, Begins With, Ends With, Contains
- Numbers: =, <, >, <=, >=, !=
- Users: Me, User (specific), Others
- Date: Last 2 Hours, Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 31 Days, Before, After, All
- Asset status: Approved, Completed, In Progress, New, Ready for Editing, Ready for Review, Rejected
- Search All Jobs
- Search Devices
- Automatically populated Smart Search folders
- Simple text or advanced (filtered) searches
- Search assets or Productions
Access Controls
- Open Directory or Local User group mapping
- User-definable permission sets with:
- Asset Filters
- Production Filters
- Device Permissions
Multiformat Delivery Through Compressor
- Copy Compressor video in/out
- Add graphics format support
- Other file types (see “File Format Support”)
- Save and name templates for Compressor batch processes
File Format Support (Scanning)
- Final Cut Studio applications
- Final Cut Pro projects (.fcp)
- Soundtrack Pro project and audio files (.stap and .stmp)
- Motion projects (.motn)
- DVD Studio Pro projects (.dspproj)
- iWork applications
- Other document formats
- Final Cut Server catalogs virtually any document type, including Microsoft Office files. It provides a generic icon in the catalog for document types it does not have default icons for.
- Video, audio, and graphics file formats
- Animation NTSC
- Animation NTSC Alpha
- Animation PAL
- Animation PAL Alpha
- Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)
- Apple ProRes 422
- Apple ProRes 422 Clip Edit Proxy
- Apple ProRes 422 for Interlaced Material
- Apple ProRes 422 for Interlaced Material (High Quality)
- Apple ProRes 422 for Progressive Material
- Apple ProRes 422 for Progressive Material (High Quality)
- BMP
- Dolby Digital Professional (Auto)
- Dolby Digital Professional 2.0
- Dolby Digital Professional 5.1
- DV NTSC
- DV NTSC 4:3
- DV NTSC Anamorphic
- DV PAL
- DV PAL 4:3
- DV PAL Anamorphic
- DVCPRO HD 1080i50
- DVCPRO HD 1080i50 with audio pass-through
- DVCPRO HD 1080i60
- DVCPRO HD 1080i60 with audio pass-through
- DVCPRO HD 720p60
- DVCPRO HD 720p60 with audio pass-through
- DVCPRO HD NTSC
- DVCPRO NTSC Anamorphic
- DVCPRO HD PAL
- DVCPRO PAL Anamorphic
- Elementary Stream
- H.264
- H.264 Webcasting
- H.264 10.3 Mbps
- H.264 100 Kbps
- H.264 100 Kbps Streaming
- H.264 300 Kbps
- H.264 300 Kbps Streaming
- H.264 40 Kbps
- H.264 40 Kbps Streaming
- H.264 6.75 Mbps
- H.264 800 Kbps
- H.264 800 Kbps Streaming
- H.264 for Apple TV
- H.264 for iPod Video and iPhone 320x240 (QVGA)
- H.264 for iPod Video and iPhone 640x480
- H.264 for Video Podcasting
- H.264 LAN
- H.264 LAN Streaming
- HD MPEG-2 19.0 Mbps
- HD Uncompressed 10-bit 1080i50
- HD Uncompressed 10-bit 1080i60
- HD Uncompressed 10-bit 1080p24
- HD Uncompressed 8-bit 1080i50
- HD Uncompressed 8-bit 1080i60
- HD Uncompressed 8-bit 1080p24
- HDV 1080i50
- HDV 1080i60
- HDV 720p30
- JPEG
- JPEG 100 NTSC
- JPEG 100 PAL
- JPEG 75 NTSC
- JPEG 75 PAL
- JPEG Frame Proxy
- JPEG Thumbnail Proxy
- MP3 for Audio Podcasting
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-1 DVD 1.85 Mbps
- MPEG-1 for DVD
- MPEG-2 3.7 Mbps 1-pass
- MPEG-2 3.7 Mbps 2-pass
- MPEG-2 5.0 Mbps 1-pass
- MPEG-2 5.0 Mbps 2-pass
- MPEG-2 6.4 Mbps 1-pass
- MPEG-2 6.2 Mbps 2-pass
- MPEG-4
- MPEG-4 Webcasting
- MPEG-4 800 Kbps
- MPEG-4 800 Kbps Streaming
- MPEG-4 Clip Proxy
- MPEG-4 LAN
- MPEG-4 LAN Streaming
- Photo JPEG 100 NTSC
- Photo JPEG 100 PAL
- Photo JPEG 75 NTSC
- Photo JPEG 75 PAL
- Photoshop
- Pixlet NTSC
- Pixlet PAL
- PNG
- Program Stream
- QuickTime H.264 Clip Proxy
- QuickTime Offline RT Clip Proxy
- QuickTime Surround 5.1
- SD 10-bit Uncompressed NTSC
- SD 10-bit Uncompressed PAL
- SD 8-bit Uncompressed NTSC
- SD 8-bit Uncompressed PAL
- Targa
- TIFF
- Transport Stream
- Uncompressed 10-bit
- Uncompressed 8-bit
- XDCAM HD 1080i50
- XDCAM HD 1080i60
- XDCAM HD 1080p24
- XDCAM HD 1080p25
- XDCAM HD 1080p30
