Apple Final Cut Server 1.5 - Manual (Page 94)

About the Catalog Button
When you select one or more items in the Search Devices window, the Catalog button
becomes active. Clicking the Catalog button allows you to add the asset to the
Final Cut Server catalog.
Click the Catalog button
to add the selected
item as an asset to the
Final Cut Server catalog.
Note: It is possible that the selected item is already an asset in the Final Cut Server catalog.
You can determine whether the item is in the catalog by either searching for it in the
Assets pane or by using the shortcut menu (described next) to try and delete it. When
you choose Delete from the shortcut menu, a dialog appears that lists what you are about
to delete, including whether it is being removed from the catalog.
About the Shortcut Menu
You can Control-click an item to open a shortcut menu with several options. Although
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
About QuickTime Metadata 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 because the original media files must be copied from the device
to your local cache before you can view them.
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