Apple Final Cut Server - Manual (Page 138)

138 Part II General Administration
 Metadata Map pane: This is where you can relate one metadata field to another,
making it easier to extract metadata information from a wide variety of formats. See
“
Metadata Mapping ” on page 148 for more information.
 Metadata Set pane: This is where you assign metadata groups to metadata sets.
When you add assets or productions to Final Cut Server, you choose a metadata set
to assign to them, which in turn applies the metadata group and its fields. See
“
Managing Metadata Sets ” on page 154 for more information.
Note: See “ Permission Set Settings ” on page 130 for information about configuring the
metadata settings for a permission set.
Important: As you use the various panes in managing your metadata, you will find
many settings, options, and listings that are intended only for internal Final Cut Server
use. Many of these are noted in the following descriptions.
In addition to using metadata to add information to your assets and productions, you
can use the same techniques to affect other areas within Final Cut Server. For example,
you can add metadata fields to the Thumbnails metadata group to control which fields
appear when you are using the Thumbnails view. See “
Using Metadata to Configure the
User Interface ” on page 158 for more information.
Metadata Fields
Metadata fields are the individual items of metadata stored with the media items
managed by Final Cut Server. There are two types of metadata fields:
 Required metadata: Includes fields that are required to describe devices supported
by Final Cut Server as well as file format metadata such as IPTC metadata.
 Custom metadata: Can be configured by an administrator to any values required by
the site or installation.
Note: The same metadata fields can be used in multiple metadata groups.