Final Cut Server Startup Problem

Hello,
I recently installed final cut server 1.5, and when I pushed the "Start" button (in the final cut server preference pane) I got an error reading "Final Cut Server could not be started. The Final Cut Server launchd files could not be found. Please reinstall Final Cut Server." Ive reinstalled final cut server many times, and I keep on getting the same error!
Please help!
Thanks!
Manny Rothman

Are you installing on 10.8.2 as your profile suggests? OS X 10.6.8 is the last version FCSVR 1.5 was compatible with.
If you're running 10.6.8 and are still having issues, try removing FCSVR prior to reinstalling by using the following article (backup your db beforehand, of course).
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1764
~D

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Final Cut Server Client Download Problems

I am attempting to install/run Final Cut Server client on my laptop and Mac tower. The other day the client software worked well on my Mac tower but today no go. I attempted to install the client software on my laptop, I can get to the download screen in a web browser by typing the address of the local server but when I press download the next page appears but no download or dialogue box appears. Also while wrestling with this problem I deleted the client software from my tower. This same issue is now happening on the tower when I try to restore the client software. Possibly related or not I just updated the software to 10.6.7. but tried another machine I have here that is at 10.6.4 with the same result. I also read an old post that described problems with download initiation and how they can be resolved by deleting a few specific resources out of the Java Preference Cash Files. I completed this process which resulted in no evident change.
BJ

Try removing the FCSvr client from your local machine and then reinstalling it from the web installer while you are connected via VPN. Run these commands in Terminal to remove it:
rm -r ~/Library/Caches/Java/
rm -r ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finalcutserver/
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finalcutserver.plist
rm -r ~/Desktop/Final Cut Server.app
Sometimes my client just won't launch like you are seeing and reinstalling it within whatever network connection I'm using gets it working again.

One or more of the updates requested by Final Cut Server could not be...

We are getting the warning " One or more of the updates requested by Final Cut Server could not be applied. (one or more replacement file(s) had unexpected track settings.)" when a FCPv6.06 (possibly also FCPv7.0) project file is checked-out of Final Cut Server v1.5.1. The assets linked to the project are cached down successfully (this in not an XSAN environment) but opening the project alerts to some offline media files (not all) and we need to manually relink them to the assets in the Final Cut Server cache. All is good again until the project file is checked-out of FCSvr to another workstation.
Having a look at the path of the offline files it is referencing the path of the assets as they were on the previous editor's (different) workstation. None of our workstations have the same path to the Final Cut Server cache.
My understanding and experience is that FCSvr manages the paths for FCP linked assets and modifies the checked-out file's path to point to the workstation's FCSvr cache?
Can you tell me how I can resolve this issue?

I may have resolved this issue today or I'm at a stage where I can't replicate it. The problem may have been propagating from a within a template FCP project file we use to start our productions. I assume it was a corruption of the FCP file that FCSvr didn't recognise?

Integrating Final Cut Server 1.5 with Active Directory

Following the directions in the Final Cut Server Setup Guide and I am running into errors. Fun with Final Cut Server. Fun with Kerberos.
Final Cut Server v.1.5 is running on an Intel Xserve running 10.5.6 Server, joined to AD. Active Directory is running on a Windows Server 2008 setup.
I dropped the ini files on the domain controllers, as directed by Apple KB (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3688) and I ran the commands directed in the setup guide.
The adprincadd command should be run literally, of course, but there's a mistake straight-away when it should read "./adprincadd.pl", the ".pl" is missing. Also it says "fcsvr/fqdn of fcsvr", so naturally I replaced the fqdn, but the "fcsvr" prefixed threw me off. It gave me errors until I opened Kerberos.app and notcied that the kerb ticket was in ldap/, then the command worked for me. At least no errors, until I checked the ticket and it said I had no permissions and that the keytab entry was invalid. Wheeee.
1. First I tried:
(some info redacted)
node09:sbin root# ./adprincadd.pl -dc dc01.example.com. fcs.example.com.
Getting kerberos principal for computer account
Kerberos principal is ---
Getting computer id...---
Getting AD Domain...---
Base DN is dc=example,dc=com
getting kerb ticket using [email protected] got ticket
SASL-bind to dc01.example.com. successful
Computer record is at CN=---,CN=Computers,DC=example,DC=com
Checking to see if ---.--.---. exists...000020B5: AtrErr: DSID-031529F7, #1:
0: 000020B5: DSID-031529F7, problem 1005 (CONSTRAINTATTTYPE), data 0, Att 90303 (servicePrincipalName)
at ./adprincadd.pl line 165
2. Then I noticed the /ldap in Kerberos.app and changed the adprinadd command:
Everything ran well, with no errors...
Finding kvno...2
Reading /etc/krb5.keytab...done.
Creating new keytab file...done.
Writing out temporary keytab...done.
Making backup of old keytab and moving new keytab into place...done.
Operation Completed. You can verify with "kinit <ad user>; kvno -k /etc/krb5.keytab ldap/---.example.com"
3. Verifying with kinit gave me the keytab errors:
kinit matx; kvno -k /etc/krb5.keytab ldap/fcs.example.com
Please enter the password for [email protected]:
ldap/[email protected]: kvno = 2, keytab entry invalid
kvno: Permission denied while decrypting ticket for 'ldap/[email protected]'
Thoughts?

Hello, I'm having issues with the client login after AD integration. I followed the steps from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3818 and the Terminal output reported a success.
I'm able to add AD groups in Final Cut Server Group Permissions. However, when I try logging in on the FCServer client using credentials associated with AD group I've added, I'm getting an error message from the client stating:
"Please re-enter the username and password or contact the server administrator. Please note that the username and password are case-sensitive."
The FQDN is correct in the Server field of the client.
I'm able to log into the client using locally created user accounts that I've created on the server so I know the client is communicating correctly.
The only thing I can find in the Console for the client machine is this:
11/25/09 10:50:12 AM /Users/*/Desktop/Final Cut Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Server[1773] Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors.
In the server Console, this is a suspect message: /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Server/Final Cut Server.bundle/Contents/MacOS/fcsvr_stored[77891] pps proxy error: dsDoDirNodeAuth = -14091
Not finding much info out there regarding this. Any guidance is appreciated.

Long HDV and XDCAM clips through Final Cut Server

Hi,
I know that I could post this in Compressor and/or Quicktime and/or Leopard/Tiger Forums, but as this problem it`s causing my Final Cut Server to not working well, I think it makes sense to post here.
To resume: HDV and XDCAM clips (all on original codec, only xdcam transferred to mov in xdcam transfer) with file size bigger than exactly 4GB always FAILS in "Final Cut Server"/"Compressor alone in ANY machine installed from scratch"/"Anything that uses Quicktime". Source and Destination being localy or networked. DV or DV50 can get bigger than that, I`ve never seen this error with DV`s codecs.
I had seen this problem before I bought final cut server. When I was transcoding our interviews for transcription. We always worked with BETA SP and captured in DV or DV50. We were starting to go to HDV and now to XDCAM and this error has started to appear.
I have a "proxy" made a year ago from a HDV and it`s original has 8GB. I tried this file again and as I expected didn`t work. In ANY computer with any installations with only the latest updates. I`ve remembered that I was using Tiger at this time, and Quicktime/Tiger/ProApps had a old version.
My two cents are that some update from Tiger/Leopard/QuickTime/ProApps made this happen.
So ANY HDV/XDCAM file bigger than 4GB it`s FAILING in ANY system. (Tiger or Leopard, With or without FCP and QT PRO, Installed from scratch and updated every thing).
Some tests I`ve made:
-Compressor works with this two codecs to lower res in TIGER and with QuickTime Version 7.4.0 and LOWER. (had to be tested, but I think that was my version of QT when I managed to make the proxy of this two codecs).
-Compressor doesn`t work on any system with QT above 7.4.0.
-CATDV (http://www.squarebox.co.uk/) version 6 can make proxy versions of this two codecs in TIGER ONLY! They already know of this problem and CATDV 7 works on both.
-Compressing in compressor with H.264 (same codec as the FCSvr proxy) BUT without changing the resolution, size and etc. Works OK in both Tiger and Leopard.
-Exporting through QT works in ANY system BUT I loose TC, so it`s not an option (and I can`t input this workflow in FCSvr without using compressor).
-Exporting from FCP as QuickTime Movie with H.264 doesn`t work on Both (Tiger and Leopard).
-Exporting fro FCP as QuickTime Conversion with H.264 works but as exporting from QT I loose TC and can`t input this into FCSvr workflow.
Error message are always: "QuickTime error = -50" or "QuickTime error: corrupted data" (and of course it`s not corrupted because it`s used - even in FCP to edit - and opened viewed, catdv can do proxy and everything).
I`m surprised not to see anyone freaking out about this issue... I don`t think that It`s only me.
This is some problems that I came across while trying to find a solution:
http://www.paulescandon.com/blog/?p=39
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4912265&#4912265
http://www.squarebox.co.uk/faq155.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5513003&#5513003
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1903644&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1780228
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1853507
As you can see this is not the first time I`ve posted about this issue.
I`m sending a bug report as well.
Thank You all in advance.
Regards

Hi Chará!
We should, but I think the others will be disappointed eheheheh.
It doesn`t matter what version of Leopard I`m using (right know I`m using Leopard Server 10.5.6, but this issue has happened even with 10.4 if QT is updated and all updates of 10.5 up, as I`
ve mentioned above).
What file size are those clips that are longer than 10min?
I really don`t get, how it`s possible that just the two of us has HDV and XDCAM files with file size longer than usual? Maybe people that do interviews don`t like to record the entire interview and when capturing those clips would be under this file size limit? Or maybe we are the only ones in the whole world that transcode longer HDV and XDCAM clips (it`s funny that it doesn`t even need to be FCSrv, with only ONE machine and compressor this issue happens all the time).
I`m convinced that I have to install a Tiger version in a virtual machine with compressor and doesn`t update anything to test this further on. But I`m certain that with TIGER and CATDV this works ok! And I think that CATDV uses QT engine to do this transcodes.
This is too much of a mystery to me. Maybe it`s time to spend 24+ hours with apple in a international call and probably not getting anywhere.
I`m only posting this here in FCSrv forum because this issue it`s must worse when you have hundreds of clips with this issue and if you bought the package it doen`t matter if it`s a problem with QT+OSX or whatever, apple has to solve it for FCSrv use.
Do you reckon?
Let`s get in touch through email: lucas at rwcine.com.br
(at = @ and delete spaces).
Regards

Hardware Configurations for Final Cut Server

I am a small video production shop, currently running 2 standalone FCP stations; one Intel tower FCP7 with about 3T of firewire 800 Raid 1 storage, and one PPC G5 tower FCP6, on a gigibit ethernet network with a central NAS. I am adding a 3d station and a new employee. The problem we have run into is that many assets seem to always reside on the wrong system, and duplicate projects become impossible to resolve and archive effectively. We shoot exclusively on HDV.
This is the setup I am considering....
Convert the Intel Mac Pro tower to Final Cut Server
Buy 3 27"iMacs for edit stations
My plan would be to have all projects reside on the FCPServer and edit on 422 Proxy versions on the iMacs. I understand that each iMac would need a copy of FCP. Would they all need to be FCP7 to work on the same project at different times?
Other questions:
Would working on a gigabit ethernet network be a bottleneck?
Could I ingest video directly to the server? Is there a way to capture 422 video onto the server or would that require a separate copy of FCP on the server to capture from tape? If so could I use the older FCP6 copy withot upgrading just for capture? Alternately could I use a copy of FCExpress on the server just to create a project and capture on the server then open and convert to FCP7?
Any suggestions for what to do with the Dual 2.5G PowerPC Tower?

ProRes wil be much faster for rendering on the client and transcoding on any machine, and will also allow for more realtime effects vs native HDV in FCP. "Full-rez" is a misnomer here, since ProRes Proxy does not sacrifice any resolution and indeed has a higher bitrate than native HDV. You might find that your HDV source looks just as good in ProRes Proxy (it is very high quality, just not as pristine as the higher quality versions of ProRes).
Remember, ProRes 422 Proxy is still a 4:2:2 10-bit codec. I think you'd need to look awfully close to see a qualitative difference. You can choose to use ProRes Proxy at lower resolutions than your source media, but you don't need to. It is designed to work all the way up to 2K and maintain all the color fidelity of a 10-bit codec.
When you check in a project that you are cutting locally with Edit Proxies, FCSvr relinks the project to the original media, but it does not render anything. You would need to open the project on the FCSvr host with FCP to create an flattened QuickTime against the original media (in your case native HDV).
You can recapture, but when you have FCSvr cataloging your clips, you do not want to recapture the same media and duplicate the asset. If you are careful and recapture the clips that were disposed of to the exact same location with the exact same filename as before, FCSvr will re-link the media to the asset automatically. However, that workflow is very human-error-prone and I strongly recommend you not adopt it. Keep your source HDV tapes as a worst-case backup, but if you are going to use FCSvr, use its archive capability to RAID-1 external drives and only go back to the tapes if all else fails. And you'll need to be very careful to match you prior ingest if you do.
Of course, you can always delete an asset altogether when you're done with its media and later recapture the footage from tape and treat it as a new asset. It depends on how interested you are in keeping your asset records and their proxies intact for media you plan to remove from storage.
I'd take a good long look at ProRes Proxy vs HDV for quality. If you can't see a difference, capture to ProRes Proxy and make that your online format. Then you won't be eating up all your storage on the server keeping both the HDV original and a ProRes Proxy for edit proxies. If you don't enable edit proxies, FCSvr just hands out the original media.

Best practices for Edit Proxies in Final Cut Server?

We just bought Final Cut Server, and for the most part are pretty happy with the product. We are a small production facility, and primarily work with DVCPro HD footage at 720P. One feature we'd like to use would be the edit proxies feature in FCS, but they don't seem to be working for us.
_Hosting Computer_
We're using a mac mini server with snow leopard server and final cut server 1.5.
Problem
Whenever we specify in the Administrator Pane of FCS, Under Preferences and Analyze, we'd like to use a custom transcode setting for the edit proxies, keeping Frame Size, TC, and Frame rate the same, but changing the codec to h264 least quality, the effects are a different compression than expected. We tested out the compression settings using Compressor on the server, and we get the desired results:
Input: DVCPro HD 720P Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Output: H264 Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Also did the same outputs using Apple Prorez, Photo Jpeg and got the following outputs:
Output: Apple Prorez Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
Output: Photo Jpeg Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps
(We also made new transcode settings for these compressor settings and we not able to control the compressions through FCS with these settings as well. Our target codec is H264.)
After connecting the new compression settings on the Mac Mini Server to a new transcode setting in the FCS Admin Pane, we restarted the Java Client, logged in to FCS as an FCSadmin, opened the Admin Pane, and under preferences/analyze change the edit proxy setting to the New H264 setting that worked perfectly when using Compressor. After uploading a final cut project, with one associated media file (DVCPro HD 720P Quicktime 960X720 (1248 x 702) 23.98 fps), the resulting edit proxy did not match the specification: 384 x 216, 23.98fps, TC matches source.
Also did not dynamically connect when checking out the project from FCS and selecting edit proxies and keep media with project and saving to the desktop.
Question 1:
Does anyone have any best practice transcode setting(s) to create for DVCPro HD 720P using edit proxies that dynamically connect and are smaller size than the original? H264? Photo Jpeg?
Question 2:
Why is Final Cut Server's Compressor giving a different output, when the same settings work well with just Compressor?
Question 3:
Does H264 work in creating dynamically linking edit proxies (ie, no need to reconnect)?
I can imagine this information to be very useful to the community, so any input or solutions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

H.264 is a puzzling choice of codec for edit proxies. H.264 is not an edit-friendly codec since it is a complex long-GOP structure and will require a ton of rendering just to play back the timeline. ProRES 422 Proxy would be a much better choice for editing. I'm afraid I can't account for the differences between Compressor and FCServer in this case, but my gut tells me the non-I-frame codec you are trying to use for edit proxies might have something to do with it. Maybe for an edit-proxy workflow to operate properly on the server-side the codec must be I-frame? Is there any reason you do not want to use ProRES 422 Proxy? They are about 1/3 the footprint of 720p24 DVCPRO-HD, which is already very efficient. For that frame rate and frame size they would be roughly half the heft of good ol' DV25.
So my answer to all three questions would be to try ProRES 422 Proxy for your edit proxies and see if everything lines up.

Final Cut Server 1.x and Final Cut Pro 7

Are there any compatibility issues with Final Cut Pro 7 (Final Cut Studio (2009) and Final Cut Server 1.x?

FCSvr 1.5 has the ability to process FCP 7 project files and well as leverage ProRes Proxy Edit Proxy workflows.
FCSvr 1.5 is recommended for FCP 7.
I've heard about problem with FCSvr 1.1.1 and FCP 7.
Are you experiencing anything in particular?
Let me know
Nicholas Stokes
XPlatform Consulting

Final Cut Server Edit Proxy

Hi,
I need to do remote editing (with FCP7) over small bandwith WAN (1Mbps) therefore I configure Final Cut Server (V1.5.1) Edit Proxy to use a Quicktime H.264 codec with the following parameters:
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: unknown
Audio Encoder
AAC, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: (100% of source)
Height: (100% of source)
Pixel aspect ratio: Default
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 0
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
The workflow is:
The remote editor choose on Final Cut Server the FCP project he has to work on, do a Check Out of the project on his Final cut Pro 7 local station by selecting "use: edit proxy" and "keep media with project". Project and associated footage are then uploaded from the server to the remote FCP7 station with no problem.
When the upload is complete, the editor simply open the project file to start editing on his station. This workflow was working allright till january: when opening the project the FCP7 doesn't reconnect the media with an error message:
"one or more of the updates requested by Final Cut Server could not be applied. (one or more replacement (s) had unexpected track setting.)" and media files are Offline! When trying to reconnect manually by indicating the proper path for the missing files, I have to uncheck "Matched Name and reel only" to select the edit proxy files. It looks like it was still linked with the original media...
Looking at the project file, the paths for the proxy files are the proper ones...
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>fileSubs</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>newurl</key>
<string>file://localhost/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/testbdw10/media/_FCS__XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/dev/3/1670_179_004301.mov</string>
<key>originalurl</key>
<string>file://localhost/Macintosh%20HD/Users/XXXXX/Documents/Final%20Cut%20Pro%20Docume nts/Capture%20Scratch/Untitled%20Project%201/179004301.mov</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>newurl</key>
<string>file://localhost/Users/XXXXX/Desktop/testbdw10/media/_FCS__xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dev/3/1674_179_003601.mov</string>
<key>originalurl</key>
<string>file://localhost/Macintosh%20HD/Users/XXXX/Documents/Final%20Cut%20Pro%20Documen ts/Capture%20Scratch/Untitled%20Project%201/179003601.mov</string>
</dict>
</array>
<key>version</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>versionMin</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
If I change the Edit Proxy setting for ProRes 422 (Proxy) on Final Cut Server edit proxy setting then the reconnection is working OK. I cannot use this workaround as the files are then far too big to be tranferred over a 1Mbps WAN.
The setup with the Quicktime H.264 edit proxy was working fine after, it seems, the installation of Pro applications update 2009-01 issued end of october 2009, but since january 2010 it does not work anymore.
Final Cut Server is version 1.5.1 with Mac Os X server is 10.5.8
Editing station are running Final Cut Pro 7.0.1 and Mac Os X 10.5.8
What could be wrong ? Does anybody encountered this type of problem?
Any suggestions welcomed!
Thanks.

I'm dealing with this issue right now (FCSv 1.5.1 latest pro app updates, 10.6.2, FCP7). I was under the impression that you could make edit proxies that were 25% resolution (as opposed to just using an efficient codec), but Final Cut Pro is having a rough time getting it right. I too am only getting success with ProRes-Proxy, audio passthrough, and 100% res/everything else. I tried using Apple Intermediate Codec with default "100%" settings and audio passthrough but had no luck. It's way heavier than ProRes Proxy anyways.
The only suggestion I can make is try your h264 solution with audio passthrough (or Linear PCM) instead of AAC. If that makes a difference we're on to something. Some people started having this issue after an iTunes update, so maybe AAC is the source of the problem.
The edit proxy workflow really needs tweaking from Apple to cater to internet-based solutions rather than fiber/SAN environments where bandwidth is a non-issue.
I'll report back later after some more testing.

Final Cut Server + Media Manager Best Practices

Is anyone using Final Cut Server to organize FCP Media Manager?
I don`t want MM and it`s individual contains cataloged by FCS, only a "bundle" from the directory of MM (that has the project and a sub-directory called Media with all medias from that project).
I`ve tried different solutions but always get stuck in some way.
1- Get the directory from MM and put on a Device being watched by a scan production. A production with the name from the directory is created and the project and medias are catalogued as well.
But I don`t want those medias and projects catalogued by FCS. I`ve tried to set the recursion limit to 0 or 1 but the production is not created, neither the bundle (from the directory) asset. Nevertheless you can`t archive productions (with MatrixStore you can), so a workaround would be to archive only the bundle inside the production (if you managed to get only the directory as a bundle inside the production). But to get worse, if you update the directory as a bundle (regardless if it`s inside a production or not) and your archive device is a FTP device it says "ERROR: E_NOTSUPP Sorry, copying a bundle to an ftp server is not supported".
2- Zip with "ditto" (because the 2GB problem with normal zip) the MM directory and put on a device being watched. This won`t be scanned by a scan production to create a production with the name of it contents because it`s not a directory it`s a zip file and even if I forget about productions and only uploads the zip files to get each MM directory created as a zip takes too long and much cpu power so it`s not possible with many MM directories (the case). And to get things worse (always murphy), before I`ve deleted those directories I checked the integrity of zip files and to my surprise some of them were ruined. So I don`t trust compressing anything for my backup. I`ve tried Tar, ditto, archive from finder (that`s the same as ditto) but it takes too long or break the file.
The bottom line: I just want a MM as directory bundle in FCS (preferentially inside a production automatically created) AND being able to archive it to a FTP device.
Thanks in advance

Well it sounds like you have two problems: getting a successful scan production to work and archiving. I think I can help with the first one.
When you set up your device make sure that it is one directory level up from each folder you want turned into a production. So for example - XSAN/Show1/MM/ - if you make XSAN the device and set the recursion limit to 0, Show1 will become a production and Show2, Show3, etc for example. Set the recursion limit to 1 and MM becomes a production - Show2/MM/ and Show3/MM, etc for example.
Here's what I would do. Device 1 = XSAN/Show1 with recursion = 0. In the production info section of the scan production response set the title = Show1_[0]. The [0] will automatically fill in the name of the directory, ie - MM. This way each folder within Show1 becomes a production and the name is preceded by Show1 for easy sorting. This way you can isolate your MM folder and treat it differently.
That should get your productions scanning correctly. I'm not sure about archiving to an FTP device, zipping bundles, or automatically adding bundled assets to productions with a scan. As far as I know, the only way to add a bundled asset is to manually upload a folder. I might be wrong about this though.
Hope this helps even a little.
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Active Directory logins from Windows to Final Cut Server

While I did manage to solve my main problem with Integrating AD with Final Cut Server at this one site.... It turns out that there a typo in the kerberos config file. Ooops. Now logins in from Mac OS using AD credentials works well. Unfortunately, I am still seeing some minor issues, like certain groups in AD not being able to login, and for some reason the Windows users can't login (only the Macs using AD credentials). Any seeing anything like this? Of course I enabled certain groups in Final Cut Server pref pane to match certain AD groups, but in the end only the BuiltIn groups worked, not the Domain Users, Domain Admin groups. Strange. And not sure why Windows users can't login. Same domain. Fun times.

It seems like I read the inital Kb article wrong. The Windows clients get the krb5.ini file, not the Domain Controller. LOL. Thanks to drew for pointing that out to me.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3688
In order for Active Directory bound Windows Final Cut Server client systems to successfully authenticate to Final Cut Server, you must create a custom Kerberos configuration file on the Windows client system.

Optimal Block Size for Xserve's RAID hosting Final Cut Server

What would be the optimal block size for the software RAID on the machine that will be hosting Final Cut Server? The default is 36K. Since FCS is essentially a database, would be the optimal settings? Any glimpse what data size chunks FCS write to the disk?

Actually I meant the block size for the internal startup volume where FCS is installed, not Xsan volumes. As to optimal settings for Xsan volumes it really depends on the type of the data you store on Xsan, and if it is primarily video, what format: SD, HD.

I can't fix the issue on Final Cut Server,

I tried to fix this issue, I don't have this program anymore, but it is continued appearing the error on my laptop.
"Final Cut Server cannot start without a valid serial number. Please enter your serial number in the server's Final Cut Server System Preferences panel."
For your information, I deleted this program few years ago, It is really annoying me, "Popup" Check the picture ( Below)
I would appreciate, if you resolve my problem thanks!

Did you try using the tool from Digital Rebellion?
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsremover/
It is supposed to removed Final Cut Server and Final Cut Studio.

Recently upgraded my Java to Java SE 6 1.6.0_33; now Final Cut Server won't launch due to security restrictions. Help!

Running OSX 10.6.8, and I received a Software Update notification this morning stating that Java has a security update available. So, being the dilligent updater that I am, I updated to Java SE 6 1.6.0_33. Now Final Cut Server will not launch, stating "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system"
Is there an exception list somewhere for the Java client to which I can add FCS? (Sorry, I'm not very familiar with Java)
Here is the launch file and exception info:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp
spec="1.0+"
codebase="http://192.168.1.103" href="/FinalCutServer/FinalCutServer_mac.jnlp">
<information>
    <icon kind="default" href="~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.icns"/>
    <icon kind="shortcut" href="~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.icns"/>
    <icon kind="splash" href="~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.png"/>
    <title>Final Cut Server</title>
    <vendor>Apple Inc.</vendor>
    <homepage href="/FinalCutServer"/>
    <description>Final Cut Server</description>
    <description kind="short">Final Cut Server</description>
    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="Apple"/>
    </shortcut>
</information>
<security>
      <all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
    <jar href="/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.jar"/>
    <j2se version="1.5*" initial-heap-size="64m" max-heap-size="300m" java-vm-args="-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false"/>
    <j2se version="1.6*" initial-heap-size="64m" max-heap-size="300m" java-vm-args="-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false -d32"/>
    <property name="apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz" value="false"/>
    <property name="file.encoding" value="UTF-8"/>
</resources>
<resources os="Mac OS X" arch="i386">
    <nativelib href="/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer_MacOSX.jar"/>
</resources>
<resources os="Mac OS X" arch="ppc">
    <nativelib href="/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer_MacOSX.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.apple.FinalCutServer.javaui.FinalCutServer">
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
JNLPException[category: Security Error : Exception: null : LaunchDesc:
<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://192.168.1.103/" href="http://192.168.1.103/FinalCutServer/FinalCutServer_mac.jnlp">
<information>
    <title>Final Cut Server</title>
    <vendor>Apple Inc.</vendor>
    <homepage href="http://192.168.1.103/FinalCutServer"/>
    <description>Final Cut Server</description>
    <description kind="short">Final Cut Server</description>
    <icon href="http://192.168.1.103/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.icns" kind="default"/>
    <icon href="http://192.168.1.103/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.icns" kind="shortcut"/>
    <icon href="http://192.168.1.103/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.png" kind="splash"/>
    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="Apple"/>
    </shortcut>
</information>
<security>
    <all-permissions/>
</security>
<update check="timeout" policy="always"/>
<resources>
    <jar href="http://192.168.1.103/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer.jar" download="eager" main="false"/>
    <java initial-heap-size="67108864" max-heap-size="314572800" java-vm-args="-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false" version="1.5*"/>
    <java initial-heap-size="67108864" max-heap-size="314572800" java-vm-args="-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=false -d32" version="1.6*"/>
    <property name="apple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz" value="false"/>
    <property name="file.encoding" value="UTF-8"/>
    <nativelib href="http://192.168.1.103/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer_MacOSX.jar" download="eager" main="false"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.apple.FinalCutServer.javaui.FinalCutServer"/>
</jnlp> ]
    at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResourcesHelper(LaunchDownload.java:16 91)
    at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.checkSignedResources(LaunchDownload.java:1507)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareResources(Launcher.java:1281)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareAllResources(Launcher.java:634)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:336)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Launcher.java:208)
    at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:125)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:451)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:283)
    at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:116)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

Aha! I was able to solve the problem thanks to the help of another editor.
Open Java Preferences (Applications > Utilities)
Click the check box on the first page to allow web applets
Under the security tab, there will be an existing Security Certificate (signed by Apple Inc.) that is likely for FCSvr. Delete the certificate.
Open FCSvr again, and Java will prompt you as to allow it or not. Click Allow and tell it to remember for future use.
Badabing, badaboom! FCSvr is back up and running!
(Note this is for client-side only)

Backup Final Cut Server Asset Library

Hi,
I like to find out the correct procedure to backup and restore the Final Cut Server Asset Library, and able to link up the catalog correctly.
There are instructions to backup and restore the FC Server catalog, proxies, etc, but I'm unable to find instructions for the asset library.
It's possible that the FC Server hardware goes down or Mac OS X gets corrupted, with the instructions available, it's possible to get the FC Server back working.
It's also possible that the storage hardware of asset library will fail, so I like to find out the procedure so the FC Server catalog " does not" to see the restored asset as "new".
Cheers,
Ben

Ok, nothing until now, that`s probably a tough one.
More news:
1- Recover don`t do anything, any point in time doesn`t change this problem.
2- Installing FCSrv from DVD doesn`t do anything as well the 1.1.1 update.
3- installed fresh FCSrv on another machine for tests and of course those fields are there in this new install. Compared thoroughly each ASSET_SEARCH, PAGRPASSET, ASSETTILESVIEW, ASSETINFOVIEW, ASSETTHUMBNAILVIEW, Metadata Groups between two FCsrv (the good one -fresh - and the old one) with no difference.
4- Just to clarify: I had lots of .mov files WITH all ok (with this fields appearing) on the old FCSrv, suddenly it vanished and the only thing that appears is the title (just the title not the "title:"). It doesn`t matter if upload, scan or anything. It doesn`t matter if it`s a photo (.jpeg) or .mov or anything. It doesn`t matter if it`s inside a production.
5- Just to rule out the possibility of FCSrv ruining Mime Type from the original files, I`ve uploaded from OLD-FCSRV MEDIA device to the new one and all it`s ok like the second image (that I`ve found on the FCSrv online manual).
I`ll nonetheless install FCSrv fresh on this machine anyway, but I just want to know what triggered this strange, odd and bizarre behavior if it happens again in the future.
Thank you very much for any help or comments
Regards

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