About the Final Cut Pro Project Info Window
A Final Cut Pro project info window is slightly different than other types of asset info
windows. A Final Cut Pro project info window’s Action pop-up menu does not have all
of the items that are in the Action pop-up menu for other types of assets because certain
actions cannot be performed on a Final Cut Pro asset. It also contains an additional pane,
the Elements pane.
The Elements pane
shows the items
that are part of the
Final Cut Pro project.
A Final Cut Pro project
asset info window
Final Cut Pro project elements are representations of the clips that are used in the
Final Cut Pro project. Final Cut Server creates the elements from the media assets that
are created when the Final Cut Pro project is uploaded to Final Cut Server. See
Uploading
Final Cut Pro Projects
for more information about elements.
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Chapter 3
Uploading Files to Final Cut Server
When you upload assets, they are added to your Final Cut Server catalog, along with the
other assets uploaded by you and other Final Cut Server users that make up the
Final Cut Server catalog. 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.
This chapter covers the following:
•
Organizing Assets in Final Cut Server
(p. 53)
•
Searching in Final Cut Server
(p. 62)
•
Displaying Search Results
(p. 69)
•
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)
Organizing Assets in Final Cut Server
Before you can organize or search for assets in the Final Cut Server catalog, you must
understand how the Assets and Productions panes are structured.
When you click Assets in the Final Cut Server main window, all of the assets that have
been uploaded to Final Cut Server are displayed. All assets remain on this single level in
the Assets pane.
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