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Using Scans and Watchers
Both scans and watchers can be used to automatically ingest or catalog new assets in
Final Cut Server. You have the option of using both or either of them individually in
your workflow, depending on the requirements.
Yo u u s e d s c a n s i n t h e p r e v i o u s l e s s o n t o a u t o m a t i c a l l y a d d c a p t u r e d F i n a l C u t P r o
material to the Final Cut Server catalog. Scans are most frequently used when you have
material that already resides on a file system and you wish to leave it in place there.
This could be any type of network or direct-attached file system that Mac OS X can
read. Most frequently, it will be an Xsan or an AFP/SMB/NFS network that already has
an existing file system hierarchy. When you catalog these devices using scans, the folder
structure becomes metadata and thus inherently searchable. So scans are good for
infrastructure that already exists.
Wa t c h e r s a r e m o s t u s e f u l w h e n yo u n e e d t o c o p y a n d / o r t r a n s c o d e c o n t e n t f r o m a
location (such as your local edit station) to another location (perhaps an Xsan, or net-
work). Commonly, the watchers are shared on the Final Cut Server and mounted on
the client desktops. Local users can then drag material to these folders to be transcoded
or published to a final destination. A common workflow would involve dragging a
piece of ProRes 422 material to a watcher and having it automatically transcoded to
H.264, and then having the resulting H.264 file published to an FTP server or other
network device.
ADMIN
Setting Up a Basic Scan
Before you can leverage scans, you must first prepare Final Cut Server for discovering
these assets. Final Cut Server can scan only devices, so any area you want to scan has
to be defined as a device first. You'll be making a new file-system device to mimic the
behavior of a Xsan or network. You will also set up a basic scan to pull in the material
from the folder.
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Copy the Evergreen folder from the FCS_Book_Files folder on your desktop to the
Macintosh HD/FCSvr folder.
 
 
 
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