User Guide

Chapter 3 Organizing and Searching the Final Cut Server Catalog 61
Doing a Simple Search
To perform a simple search of the Assets or Productions pane in Final Cut Server, you
choose a search type and enter a term. Final Cut Server searches for that term in every
metadata field on every asset or production. Searching is not case sensitive.
In the Simple Search field, you can choose between two simple search types:
 Choosing Contains finds the term you enter within a single metadata field. If, for
example, you enter the term se, Final Cut Server searches for all terms that include se,
including serenade, sunset, and dense, in a single metadata field.
 Choosing Matches Word searches for a particular word or words in every available
metadata field. Matches Word searches are based on stemming, a process that
identifies the root of the word, which gets modified by the grammatical
requirements of the English language. For example, the stem of work, works, worked,
and working is work. Therefore, if you enter the search term working, Final Cut Server
stems the term to work and then returns all assets with a stemmed term of work in
any of the asset’s metadata fields.
Note: In stemming a phrase, common words such as the, a, and, and but are ignored.
You can make simple searches more specific by using a search delimiter.
Search Limiter Example Returns
Multiple search terms hurricane wind water Assets with the terms hurricane,
wind, and water
Search terms in quotation marks “Hurricane Alma” Assets with the entire search
phrase Hurricane Alma
Negative (-) search term “Hurricane -Alma” Assets with the term Hurricane,
(and without the term Alma)