User Guide

72 Chapter 3 Organizing and Searching the Final Cut Server Catalog
Searching Devices and Jobs
Two advanced user searches, Search Devices and Search All Jobs, are available in the
Final Cut Server client. Depending on your permissions, these searches may or may not
be available for your use. If you have questions about when it is appropriate for you to
use these searches, contact your Final Cut Server administrator.
Searching Devices
If your Final Cut Server administrator has given you permission, you can search for a file
on any device connected to Final Cut Server. This allows you to examine the contents
of a device, including items that have not been added to the Final Cut Server catalog.
The devices that you, as a client user, have access to are determined by your
Final Cut Server administrator. Consider speaking to your Final Cut Server administrator
before searching for or working with a file on a device.
To search a device:
1 Choose Search Devices from the Server pop-up menu.
Warning: Use the Search Devices window with caution. When you search a device,
you are searching for files, not Final Cut Server assets. Devices can contain files that
both have and have not been added to the Final Cut Server catalog. From the Search
Devices window, you can add a media file to your Final Cut Server catalog, and copy,
delete, and download the file to your local system; taking some of these actions could
result in making duplicate copies of an asset in your Final Cut Server server system or
deleting all copies of a file from a device.
Click the Server button.
Choose Search Devices
from the pop-up menu.