Apple Final Cut Server User Manual
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Chapter 12
Managing Devices
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About the Shortcut Menu
You can Control-click an item to open a shortcut menu with several options. While
many of these options look similar to the options you see when you Control-click an
asset in the Assets pane, they can function differently.
 Catalog asset: This adds the item to the Final Cut Server catalog, exactly as the
Catalog button does.
 Get Info: This opens a window that lists information about the selected item. This
includes some metadata items that do not appear when you look at the asset within
the Assets pane. See “
” on page 160 for more information.
 View Image: This opens a window in the item’s default application to view it. Unlike
the View item in the Assets pane shortcut menu, you are not able to choose to view
the proxy files and instead always view the original images. For large video files this
may take some time since the original media files must be copied from the device to
your local cache before you can view them.
 Export: You can use Export to make a local copy of the selected item. You are able to
choose the location and a transcode setting to use (if applicable) for the export process.
 Duplicate: You can use Duplicate to make a copy of the selected item onto any of
the Final Cut Server devices. The copied version of the item is not added to the
Final Cut Server catalog, regardless of whether the original item is in the catalog.
 Delete: You can use Delete to remove the selected item from the device. This actually
deletes the file. When you choose Delete, a dialog appears that lists the items that
will be deleted, including assets from the Final Cut Server catalog if this item was a
part of it.
Note: It can be useful to use Delete to determine whether an item is in the
Final Cut Server catalog or not—just be careful to not accidentally delete an item.