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Abstract: Final Cut Server is a server-based database software package. Optimizing it to best fit your facility requires network, database and scripting skills. For small operations that don’t have multiple projects and multiple editors working together, the ben...
Powerful automation flexibility; powerful catalog and search; useful version control capabilities, check-in/check-out user control, review, and approval tools; stable; cross-platform.
Incomplete/difficult search capabilities, advanced features require user supplied scripts or scripting capability; complex to alter from defaults.
If you are comfortable with databases and scripting, you can create some amazingly powerful and useful workflows with Final Cut Server 1.1. If you are diligent about entering useful metadata while logging footage, you’ll have strong abilities to qui...
Abstract: Apple’s Final Cut Server is a client-server-based workflow tool with three main uses: cataloguing and searching assets (especially video-based assets); version control through check-in and check-out capabilities and approval; and automatically converti...
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Published: 2008-08-27, Author: Michael , review by: macworld.co.uk
Relatively expensive for small studio, initial configuration requires detailed set-up, administrator support required for smooth operation, server only supported on Mac OS X10.5 and above Min specs: Intel Mac/Power Mac G5, Mac OS X 10.5, QuickTime 7.4.1...
Many postproduction facilities have existing bespoke systems that will provide similar functionality to Final Cut Server, but this is an affordable solution for small-to-medium-sized Mac-dominated studios, especially as it dovetails so neatly with the...
