Final Ctu Server 1.5's Analyze Filter Preferences Setting
New to Final Cut Server 1.5 (FCSvr 1.5) is the Analyze Filter Preferences tab of the Advanced Administrator Pane. The Analyze Filter allows you to set Clip Proxy specify settings based on a number of different criteria. The point is that you can vary the Clip Proxy transcode settings based on 1 or all of the following criteria:
1. Source file’s video codec
2. Image size
3. Bit Rate
4. Frame Rate
5. The Device the Asset is stored on or will be catalogued to
Practical Usage:
After playing with the Analyze Filter and thinking about how I could practically use them and what benefit’s they have over the functionality of Final Cut Server 1.1.1 I came away with the following example practically usage of using Analyze Filters.
Disabling Proxy Creation
Let say that I am cataloging some low bit rate H.264 files, that I don’t want to create Clip Proxy for, I could for example set FCSvr 1.5 to check the asset video codec, and if it’s an video that is encoded with the H.264 codec, I can decide to not create Clip Proxy for this file.
Disabling Proxy Creation
Another very helpful use of the Analyze Filter is having the ability to disable proxy creation when cataloguing Final Cut Projects (FCPs). In FCSvr 1.1.1 when you catalogued FCPs FCSvr 1.1.1 upload the project and all the elements linked to the project and creates Clip Proxies of everything. Well this could be a pain if you just spent 4 hours doing very detail logging and sub clip creation in Final Cut Pro, because you’d need to wait for FCSvr 1.1.1 to create Clip Proxies of each elements of a bin, subclip or master clips before you could check the project file out and start editing.
With the Analyze Filters in FCSvr 1.5, I could setup a device specifically for cataloguing FCPs and specify that Transcode setting None, which would instruct FCSvr 1.5 to not create Clip Proxies of asset catalogue on this device.
Creating Device specific Clip Proxy settings
Lets say I stored different asset libraries on different devices. Device 1 stores assets for ESPN. Device 2 stores assets for Mercedes. All video assets for both asset libraries must be have Clip Proxies created with separate copyright watermarks embedded on them.
Also, the video assets for ESPN are all HD 16:9 and the producer would like for the Clip Proxies to be created at 50% of source materials. For the Mercedes assets are SD 4:3, but the Clip Proxies must also be available as MPEG-1 encode due to a request from the marketing department at Mercedes.
With the Analyze Filters I can for example, specify that assets catalogued or stored on Device 1 (ESPN) use a specific transcode setting that includes using an ESPN copyright and uses a Clip Proxy setting that maintains the 16:9 pixel aspect ratio and creates a Clip Proxy with a video frame size of 50% of source material. Secondly, for the Mercedes specific assets, I can use a Compressor specific transcode setting for MPEG-1 and a Mercedes Benz logo to watermark the Clip Proxies.
1. Source file’s video codec
2. Image size
3. Bit Rate
4. Frame Rate
5. The Device the Asset is stored on or will be catalogued to
Practical Usage:
After playing with the Analyze Filter and thinking about how I could practically use them and what benefit’s they have over the functionality of Final Cut Server 1.1.1 I came away with the following example practically usage of using Analyze Filters.
Disabling Proxy Creation
Let say that I am cataloging some low bit rate H.264 files, that I don’t want to create Clip Proxy for, I could for example set FCSvr 1.5 to check the asset video codec, and if it’s an video that is encoded with the H.264 codec, I can decide to not create Clip Proxy for this file.
Disabling Proxy Creation
Another very helpful use of the Analyze Filter is having the ability to disable proxy creation when cataloguing Final Cut Projects (FCPs). In FCSvr 1.1.1 when you catalogued FCPs FCSvr 1.1.1 upload the project and all the elements linked to the project and creates Clip Proxies of everything. Well this could be a pain if you just spent 4 hours doing very detail logging and sub clip creation in Final Cut Pro, because you’d need to wait for FCSvr 1.1.1 to create Clip Proxies of each elements of a bin, subclip or master clips before you could check the project file out and start editing.
With the Analyze Filters in FCSvr 1.5, I could setup a device specifically for cataloguing FCPs and specify that Transcode setting None, which would instruct FCSvr 1.5 to not create Clip Proxies of asset catalogue on this device.
Creating Device specific Clip Proxy settings
Lets say I stored different asset libraries on different devices. Device 1 stores assets for ESPN. Device 2 stores assets for Mercedes. All video assets for both asset libraries must be have Clip Proxies created with separate copyright watermarks embedded on them.
Also, the video assets for ESPN are all HD 16:9 and the producer would like for the Clip Proxies to be created at 50% of source materials. For the Mercedes assets are SD 4:3, but the Clip Proxies must also be available as MPEG-1 encode due to a request from the marketing department at Mercedes.
With the Analyze Filters I can for example, specify that assets catalogued or stored on Device 1 (ESPN) use a specific transcode setting that includes using an ESPN copyright and uses a Clip Proxy setting that maintains the 16:9 pixel aspect ratio and creates a Clip Proxy with a video frame size of 50% of source material. Secondly, for the Mercedes specific assets, I can use a Compressor specific transcode setting for MPEG-1 and a Mercedes Benz logo to watermark the Clip Proxies.
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