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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)
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
- 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)
Facility Workflow Templates
- Television Station
- Video Production
- Film Post-Production
- Education
- Other
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
- MPEG-4
Input Audio Formats (Compressor)
- QuickTime
- 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
- 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