Open Source Final Cut Server

you must be joking. Consider the price for the product.. That would be as if Microsoft would allow Windows XP plus Office 2003 to go opensource.

Just wait if a Server version X is coming.

I agree with this. We have invested too much to simply abandon our infrastructure and explore other options. Open source would be in everyone's best interest. I encourage you to visit the FCSvr feedback page and recommend this. http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutserver.html. Please be constructive - there has been enough temper tantrums and gripes about FCSvr being killed and the new way the FCPX works. Please be detailed about how you use FCSvr, any customization you've done, especially if they involve using the command line tools and scripting in any form. I personally have invested countless hours pouring over bash scripts, scouring the 43 "px" tables in the postgres database looking for ways to improve our setup, and writing libraries of functions to make scripting easy. I figured out how to customize our distribution to make it do what we need it to do, to serve our business and our clients. If the road ends here, was that all for nothing? FCSvr is a great product. I know that it doesn't jive with FCPX new ways of thinking. I know FCPX has range keywording and metadata capabilities. But what of a notification system? What of a transcoding server? What of subscription/responses triggering actions like archiving to tape? What about support for changing metadata with third party solutions? What about publishing the catalog to online services like MediaSilo? There are countless functions that have become part of the workflow of professional production companies. FCSvr has totally changed the way we work and think about our assets. I was just beginning to get somewhere with our producers and editors, and I really don't want to stop now. Open sourcing FCSvr would give developers the opportunity to write their own modules for FCSvr, we could see support for all kinds of functionality. It's not going to happen though if you don't tell them you need it. Send your feedback using the feedback page. Talk to the vendor you bought FCSvr from or the person who installed it in your organization and encourage them to have this discussion with the people at Apple who can make a difference. Please take action, don't just gripe and make broad stroke suggestions here on the forum. Thanks for your time.

Open source like Shake? ...oh wait.

On, by now, you all realize there's no open source, no version X, nothing. Apple is simply not going to do any MAM solution at all, period. Does it make sense to devistate customer confidence this way? No. But it's what Apple has chosen to do.

Funny, cause Apple touted what an overwhelming market share Final Cut Pro had, and all the movies and TV shows cut with it, when they did the NAB sneak peek (I was there, it was odd). But then release a product that in no way, shape, or form would ever be able to handle those types of work ever again. There was a HUGE disconnect there.

Someone at an Apple meeting with vendors in London leaked info that Apple is leaving MAM solutions up to third parties, and that there will be some cheap ones, and some expensive ones, coming soon.

Logically, someone is in the MAM business, knows how fuming mad FCSvr installation bases are, and will step up to the plate with a comparible solution, AND a way to port the libraries from one to the other. That company would reap huge rewards with FCSvr bases.

But, FCSvr is gone, period, forever, done, no more. As angry as it makes me, as 1/3 of my annual income was FCSvr based, and now it's gone, in already hard times, we have to find new solutions, help each other port to them, and move forward. Just don't buy Apple again. You see what they think of customer loyalty, right?

http://wwwdotpetitiononlinedotcom/FCS2011/petition.html

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Get the word out, send this to as many people you know who would care as you can!!!

I don't know how realistic it is, but I sure would like to see FCS continue maturing and I think that would best happen if open sourced.