Final Cut Server - Tracking the Status of an Asset or Production with Metadata

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Tracking the Status of an Asset or Production with Metadata

Final Cut Server comes with several default Smart Searches and metadata sets that you
can use to determine the status of an asset. The Status metadata set, for example, was
designed to help you track the status of assets and productions in Final Cut Server. Assets
and productions have a slightly different set of Status metadata fields.

See

Using Status Metadata to Track Assets and Productions

for more information about

tracking the status of assets and productions.

Important:

Your Final Cut Server administrator may have modified the Status or other

metadata available for assets or productions to meet the needs of your organization’s
workflow. If you have questions about the metadata available on an asset, contact your
Final Cut Server administrator.

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Organizing and Searching the Final Cut Server Catalog

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As your work progresses, you can search for assets that are in a particular phase of your
workflow by searching for their status or other metadata. Final Cut Server comes with
several preconfigured Smart Searches that make it easy for you to find recently modified
assets or assets marked with the Status metadata field set to “Ready for Review.”

Click this Smart Search to
see all assets with Status
set to Ready for Review.

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You can configure your own search using the advanced search options. For example, you
can search for all assets that have a Status metadata field set to In Progress. After setting
up a search, you can save it as a Smart Search.

Set the Status field
to In Progress to search
for those assets.

Click this button

to save the current

search setting as a

Smart Search.

The assets area
highlights to indicate
that the search
configuration does not
match a Smart Search.