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3 Organizing and Searching
the Final Cut Server Catalog
This chapter covers:
 An Overview of the Final Cut Server Asset Catalog (p. 49)
 Organizing Assets with Productions (p. 54)
 Using Metadata to Organize and Search Assets (p. 58)
 Searching in Final Cut Server (p. 60)
 Displaying Search Results (p. 68)
 Tracking the Status of an Asset or Production with Metadata (p. 69)
 Adding and Changing Asset Metadata (p. 71)
 Searching Devices and Jobs (p. 72)
When you upload assets, they are added to your Final Cut Server catalog, which is a
collection of assets that are uploaded by you and other Final Cut Server users. As the
number of assets in your catalog increases, creating and managing searches becomes
more important. This chapter covers ways you can use Final Cut Server to organize and
search for your assets.
An Overview of the Final Cut Server Asset Catalog
Before you can organize or search for assets in the Final Cut Server catalog, you must
understand how to view the Assets and Productions panes.
The Assets pane displays all of the assets uploaded to Final Cut Server. You can view all
the assets in your Final Cut Server system by clicking Search in the Final Cut Server
main window.