Apple Final Cut Server User Manual
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Metadata is used to describe, find, use, and repurpose content. Some of the key
challenges in managing metadata are:
 Using a metadata group that makes sense for your environment
 Minimizing the number of times metadata needs to be entered
 Ensuring interoperability among different metadata standards
Final Cut Server addresses these challenges by allowing you to:
 Customize metadata: You can define, group, and store different metadata for
different types of assets and productions in whatever way is most appropriate.
 Use whatever metadata is available on the connected devices or the supported formats:
Final Cut Server allows you to map metadata between formats like IPTC and the
custom metadata you have defined, mapping both ways. (Mapping allows you to
copy a metadata field’s entry to a different metadata field.)
Final Cut Server includes a set of standard metadata fields, groups, sets, and mappings
that can also be easily customized to specific requirements in the following ways:
 Defining the types of assets stored; for example, news graphics, promotions, news
items, bumpers, lower thirds, and so on.
 Configuring the metadata stored for each type of asset, grouping metadata into tabs,
specifying the display order, defining mandatory fields, and providing pop-up menus
to ensure high data quality and make it easier to enter information
 Defining different types of productions such as promotions and commercials
 Configuring the metadata for each type of production, using the same flexible
framework as assets
 Mapping metadata between formats. Some file formats and devices support their
own metadata, such as IPTC metadata. Final Cut Server allows you to use any available
metadata by mapping it to Final Cut Server metadata fields that you have defined.
 Customizing views. You can change how the metadata fields are displayed, change
the display order, and even provide hints on how you would like fields to be
displayed; for example, you can specify that a notes field should be five lines high.