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Final Cut Server

Technical Specifications

Final Cut Server System Requirements

Server: Minimum Requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel processor
  • 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM recommended)
  • ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor (integrated Intel graphics processors not supported)
  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
  • QuickTime 7.6 or later
  • DVD drive for installation
  • 1.5GB of disk space required to install all applications

Client: Minimum Mac Requirements

  • Mac computer with a PowerPC G5 or Intel processor
  • 1GB of RAM
  • Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
  • Mac OS X v10.4.11 or later or Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
  • QuickTime 7.6 or later
  • Final Cut Pro 7.0 or later for Final Cut Pro integration
  • Java for Mac OS X v10.4 Release 6 or later
  • 20MB of available disk space (after installation)
Final Cut Server box.

Client: Minimum PC Requirements

  • PC computer with Windows XP SP 2 or Windows Vista
  • 1GB of RAM
  • Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
  • QuickTime 7.6 or later
  • Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 4 or later
  • 20MB of available disk space (after installation)

Automatic Asset Cataloguing

  • 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 (Proxy) edit proxies for Final Cut Pro at the same time as browse proxies

Search Tools

  • Simple text search
    • Contains
    • Matches Word
  • 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 user-specific or global Smart Searches
    • Simple text or advanced (filtered) searches
    • Search assets or Productions
  • Production hierarchies
    • Nest Productions inside other Productions to create a folder-like hierarchy

Access Controls

  • Open Directory, Active 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
  • Support for cataloguing of image sequences in Targa, TIFF, JPEG and OpenEXR formats

Workflow Automation

  • Event subscriptions
    • Assets
    • Jobs
    • Productions
    • System Messages
  • Event responses
    • Check the disk space of the database volume
    • Clean Jobs
    • Clean Logs
    • Copy
    • Delete
    • Email
    • Log
    • Measure Database Size
    • Monitor Scan
    • Move to Archive
    • Purge Subscriptions
    • Read XML
    • Restore from Archive
    • Run an external script or command
    • Scan (assets)
    • Scan Productions
    • Search Expired (for scheduled events)
    • Set Asset Metadata
    • Set Production Metadata
    • Write XML
  • Scheduled events
    • Day
    • Week
    • Time of day
    • Periodically
  • Watchers (watched folders)
    • Poll
    • Subscription

Facility Workflow Templates

  • Television Station
  • Video Production
  • Film Post-Production
  • Education
  • Other

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
    • Pages
    • Numbers
    • Keynote
  • Other document formats
    • Final Cut Server catalogues virtually any document type, including Microsoft Office files. It provides a generic icon in the catalogue 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

Input Video Formats (Compressor)

  • QuickTime
    • Apple ProRes 422
    • Animation
    • BMP
    • Video
    • Cinepak
    • DV
    • DVCPRO
    • DVCPRO HD
    • H.261
    • H.263
    • H.264
    • JPEG 2000
    • M-JPEG A
    • M-JPEG B
    • Photo JPEG
    • Planar RGB
    • PNG
    • Sorenson 2
    • Sorenson 3
    • TGA
    • Uncompressed 8- and 10-bit video
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2
    • Elementary
    • Program
  • MPEG-4

Input Audio Formats (Compressor)

  • QuickTime
    • AIFF
    • Sound Designer
    • WAV
  • Dolby Digital (AC-3)
  • Soundtrack Pro STAP

Output Video Formats (Compressor)

  • AVI
  • QuickTime
    • Animation
    • Apple Pixlet
    • BMP
    • Video
    • Cinepak
    • DV
    • DVCPRO
    • H.261
    • H.263
    • H.264
    • JPEG 2000
    • M-JPEG A
    • M-JPEG B
    • Photo JPEG
    • Planar RGB
    • PNG
    • Sorenson 2
    • Sorenson 3
    • TGA
    • Video
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2
    • Elementary
    • Transport
    • Program
  • MPEG-4
    • M4V
    • M4A
    • MP4
  • Sequential TIFF and TGA
  • 3G (3GPP)

Output Audio Formats (Compressor)

  • QuickTime
    • AIFF (PCM)
    • AAC
    • Alaw 2:1
    • Dolby Digital Professional (DVD Studio Pro 4 and Final Cut Studio only)
    • IMA 4:1
    • Linear PCM
    • MACE 3:1
    • MACE 6:1 QDesign Music 2
    • Qualcomm PureVoice
    • uLAW 2:1
  • Dolby Digital (AC-3) 2.0 and 5.1 surround sound
  • MP3

Collaboration Features

  • Asset check-in and check-out
  • Final Cut Pro project check-in and check-out
  • Keep Media with Project option for Final Cut Pro project check-out (to store related media locally)
  • Prepare for Disconnected Use (for working while disconnected from the Final Cut Server network)
  • Network and Edit in Place devices
  • Track asset progress using Status metadata
  • Asset and project versioning with version comments (comment, author, date)
  • Clip Annotation tool with annotation, user, timestamp and in/out points
  • Status notification emails
  • Configurable review and approval