Q: Server is setup, now what?
As I posted last week I am in the throes of transition from 2 stand-alone edit stations to 3 clients and Final Cut Server. My server is a Mac Pro xenon Tower that I have put a 120G SSD drive into the empty optical bay to be the boot/app drive running Snow Leopard, FCPServer, and FCP for ingest and occaisional FCP duties. The server has 4 2T drives in the internal bays setup as 2 Raid 1 storage devices, The clients are 27"iMacs on a gigabit ethernet network.
Now what do I do? I have the client software on the iMacs and can log in and see some assets. What I need to be enlightened on is the actual workflow. How do I start a "production"? How to I transfer existing FCP projects and the various elements into the server? How do I make them into a "production:? Where exactly do I put them? The amazing thing about this process is that there seems to be so much that is assumed by whoever wrote the documentation, and there is no info on how to actually USE the FCServer. If there is online documents about this I would appreciate any guidance. Thanks......
Now what do I do? I have the client software on the iMacs and can log in and see some assets. What I need to be enlightened on is the actual workflow. How do I start a "production"? How to I transfer existing FCP projects and the various elements into the server? How do I make them into a "production:? Where exactly do I put them? The amazing thing about this process is that there seems to be so much that is assumed by whoever wrote the documentation, and there is no info on how to actually USE the FCServer. If there is online documents about this I would appreciate any guidance. Thanks......
quad core xenon, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Posted on Oct 5, 2010 7:22 PM
by dredcomm,Solvedanswer
The documentation that covers most of your questions is here:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutserver/usermanual/
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http://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutserver/usermanual/
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 7:43 AM