User Guide

4 Contents
Chapter 3 49 Organizing and Searching the Final Cut Server Catalog
49 An Overview of the Final Cut Server Asset Catalog
54 Organizing Assets with Productions
58 Using Metadata to Organize and Search Assets
60 Searching in Final Cut Server
68 Displaying Search Results
69 Tracking the Status of an Asset or Production with Metadata
71 Adding and Changing Asset Metadata
72 Searching Devices and Jobs
Chapter 4 77 Working in Final Cut Server
78 Final Cut Server Client Actions
79 About the Asset Info Window
83 Viewing an Asset
85 Adding Versions for a Media or Project Asset
87 Locking and Unlocking an Asset
92 Writing Annotations on a Video Asset
96 Duplicating an Asset
97 Using the Edit-in-Place Feature
97 Monitoring Jobs
100 Setting Final Cut Server Client Preferences
Chapter 5 103 Working with Media Assets
103 About Caching
105 Checking Out, Editing, and Checking In a Media Asset
107 Preparing Media Assets To Be Used on a Computer That Is Not Connected to the
Final Cut Server Network
111 Exporting Media Assets
Chapter 6 113 Working with Final Cut Pro Projects
11 4 About Final Cut Pro Projects
11 5 Using Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Server Together
11 7 Moving Final Cut Pro Projects Between Final Cut Server and Final Cut Pro
11 8 Checking Out a Final Cut Pro Project
12 0 Editing a Checked Out Project in Final Cut Pro
121 Checking In a Final Cut Pro Project
12 3 Making Versions of Final Cut Pro Project Assets
12 4 Working on Final Cut Pro Projects While Away from the Final Cut Server Network
12 7 Exporting a Final Cut Pro Project