Glossary – Apple Final Cut Server 1.5 User Manual
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Administration window The Administration window, available in the Final Cut Server
client to users with admin permissions, provides access to a wide variety of aspects of
your Final Cut Server system. It includes panes that allow you to configure preference,
automation, device, and metadata settings. You can also use the metadata settings in
the Administration window to customize the options and information your users see
when using Final Cut Server.
alias file An alias file is a small reference file that links to the master or original file.
Final Cut Server uses aliases to represent assets in productions and creates aliases when
preparing assets for disconnected use.
analyze Final Cut Server analyzes assets to create proxies and extract metadata from
them. See also
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Apple filing protocol (AFP) AFP is a network protocol supported by Macintosh computers.
Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) codec Edit proxy files created with the Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy)
codec provide high quality, seamless offline editing during checkout, including on
notebook computers, and are especially useful when your original media is uncompressed
video. See also
archive After a project or production is finished, you can use an Archive response to
move the assets from their current device to an archive device, which can be a FireWire
drive, a large slower drive, or another volume where disk space is not an issue. The assets
remain in the Final Cut Server catalog in an inactive state. They can be restored whenever
they are needed later.
asset Every item in a Final Cut Server catalog, whether it is a media file, PDF document,
or folder saved as a bundle, is an asset. All assets are stored on Final Cut Server devices
and can be part of Final Cut Server productions. Final Cut Server includes the ability to
add a wide variety of metadata to each asset. See also
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