Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Lesson
10
The archival process is the last step in your digital asset workflow. The
main point of archiving is to move the primary representation of an
asset in Final Cut Server to a predetermined location. The most likely
motivation for moving the primary representation is disk space con-
straints. This location can be anything that presents itself as a file sys-
tem and Final Cut Server has access to, such as a nearline spinning-disk
storage that is fibre-attached, an external FireWire drive, or an HSM
(Hierarchical Storage Manager) tape-based archival system. In an HSM
system, an entire robotic tape library is abstracted by a simple file system
interface, which works quite well in a Final Cut Server environment.
As long as Final Cut Server can read and write files to the file system,
that device can be used for archiving within Final Cut Server. The key
advantage to using Final Cut Server to manage your archival efforts is
that Final Cut Server keeps the metadata and proxy files online. These
archival actions are automated and can be triggered by users without
any intervention from administrators, freeing up the admins to handle
more important tasks. Assets are still available for updating metadata,
and you can still view the proxies and mark notes on them using the
Annotations window.
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