Final Cut Server tells me field name existing, but I can't see it

I'd like to create a new field with the name 'Product'. When I try to save FCS says: "There is already a field with PAMD_CUSTPRODUCT".
I looked everywhere, but I can't find a field with PAMD_CUSTPRODUCT.
Can someone explain to me what is going on?
Thanks

Did you do a search for that ID name? If FCSvr says the field exists, it must exist already. Find it and edit the existing field.

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my question is...
is there any way for final cut server to respect the original finder creation date of the media? I do understand that the file is being newly created in the database and thus will have a creation and modification date of when you put it in, but is there a way to tell the database to change the data.
Why am i trying to do this?
I have a bunch of old footage that has a creation date reflecting the actual date the footage was created off the camera. I use this date created to find footage in my database such as all footage from a shoot between 10/2/09 and 10/8/09.
What i have tried:
I have tried using the A Better Finder Attributes application to change the date created after i have imported the footage into final cut server. this caused issues with the proxy and thumbnail creation when i went to reanalyze the footage to see what it would do. I saw that final cut server does not look at the file itself to know when it was created and only logs this creation date in its own database without looking to the original file for this information.
I currently have a field in final cut server to manually enter the date but this is yet another step that someone needs to take when importing footage to server and the less steps the better.
do i have any options for final cut server 1.5 to respect the finder creation date of the original media? or change it after the import into fcserver?
What good is the creation date in fcserver if you have amassed years of old footage to be put into your database and find footage based on date it was originally created?
or what good is the creation date if you are on a shoot and do not get to ingest the footage until you get back, say maybe a few weeks later? how would you know when you shot which footage on what day?
Thanks for your help

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.

Has anyone migrated existing file libraries into Final Cut Server?

My company currently uses Virage to archive thousands of video clips. Currently we only archive proxies and keep a corresponding tape on the shelf -- it's a big library. We want to move away from tape and keep all the clips on a centralized server but we need to be able to move all the existing files over to FCS via an automated process. The clips we keep in Virage has 5 or 6 fields that we would need to migrate over and the thumbnails are mpg2. Has anyone had any experience migrating huge chunks of data over to Final Cut Server? We ditched our Avids and Unity and purchased FCP. Final Cut Server makes sense. (By the way...for what we paid for Virage, I could have purchased Final Cut Server and a Porsche to drive it to the office.)

My company is implementing FCSrv as a video database. Moral of the story: I did everything from scratch. I took the time to log and digitize all the tapes, creating a file folder structure that corresponds to the tape label. I can say from my experience, you need to organize and have all of your original media ready on the drives that you want the files to live on and THEN upload to FCSrv. I left those drives as Edit In Place devices, created FCSrv assets, and then turned the drives off. The drives only come back on when I want to copy over any of the source files. Also, FCSrv wants to create everything from scratch - its own proxies, thumbnails, and poster frames. Currently I believe the only metadata you could map / migrate over would be fields associated with FCP Log and Transfer media. Another workflow hint I have is to find media that has the same (or most similar) metadata and upload those at the same time (choosing create individual assets). Also, there is a great workflow on the forum for bulk metadata changes that helped me out a lot : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7522555
Every time I call Apple anymore they try to sell me on purchasing the custom workflow services from an engineer so you could look into that for specific help with your current metadata fields. Otherwise, I'd suggest hiring some interns
Good luck!

Applescript in Final Cut Server

Hi all,
I am trying to get an applescript running from the final cut server. I wrote a script to replace all underscores and spaces in the filenames of a specific folder.
I've tested it local and it works like a charm. But when I attached the script to the folder via the final cut server host it wasn't working anymore.
Then I tried to link the script via the administrator panel in the Final Cut Server software. Response > Run an external script or command.
I'm not really that much of a scripter so now I'm having trouble finding the right command parameters. What should be defined in that line?
This is the script:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
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                              set name of theFile to theFileName
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display dialog theFileName
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First of all I would recommend to upgrade to version 1.1. You will then be able to delete assets without deleting the media files itself (the primary representation).
Just to make sure.., did you double click the FCP project icon?. My workflow consists of making productions for FCP projects. When uploading FCP projects into a production, you have to double click the FCP icon in order to get to the assets.
On the other hand, in the assets pane the assets (videoclips, audiofiles) show up as soon as the project is uploaded or updated.
Are you sure that there is nothing flagged in any search fields that rules out the assets your are looking for?

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>
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      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="Apple"/>
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</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"/>
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<resources os="Mac OS X" arch="ppc">
    <nativelib href="/~fcsvr/webstart/FinalCutServer_MacOSX.jar"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.apple.FinalCutServer.javaui.FinalCutServer">
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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>
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    <homepage href="http://192.168.1.103/FinalCutServer"/>
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<security>
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<update check="timeout" policy="always"/>
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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)

Starting final cut server

Hi I am completely new to Final Cut Server and was wondering if I could get some of my questions answered about it. First off some back ground, the company I work for just brought me in recently and at the same time they decided too switch over to using FCP. Well they gave me the job of setting it up on their system, organizing the projects they have been working on to be easier to find and work with on FCS. As well as this I need to find out how Final Cut Server can make their life easier and present this information to them and show how this program can make their life easier.
Know I started off by reading what I can on final cut server and installing it. Know I have it set up, running under default settings, messed around with adding files to it and such.
here comes the big question, how is the best way to organize within final cut server. I and my company are used to thinking of things in a file way where you have the project file and within you have all the smaller files with your media for the project and sound and documents. How is the best way to organize projects?
Their is another part to this answer. we are not starting from scratch and are moving over a huge quantity of projects into FCS. To get the files over I created the file that they had been using to organize before, into an edit in place device. How can i easily and efficiently organize all this data so that it is useable for every one to access and resize what goes with the project that they are currently working on.
Thanks for your time

Zann00000 wrote:
Here comes the big question, how is the best way to organize within final cut server. I and my company are used to thinking of things in a file way where you have the project file and within you have all the smaller files with your media for the project and sound and documents. How is the best way to organize projects?
Their is another part to this answer. we are not starting from scratch and are moving over a huge quantity of projects into FCS. To get the files over I created the file that they had been using to organize before, into an edit in place device. How can i easily and efficiently organize all this data so that it is useable for every one to access and resize what goes with the project that they are currently working on.
Thanks for your time
To answer your first question, there is no "right" way to work with FCSvr. It is highly customizable and you get to bend it to your will (within some boundaries, of course). You should also know, since it sounds like you are new to FCP, that the media is not held within the project. It is stored separately and the project links to it. Therefore, you can have one piece of media that is used by more than one project. How your company should organize projects is something only someone who has spent time with your company can recommend. I can tell you that I decided to organize my files at the filesystem level by file type (documents, captured media, graphics, audio, etc.) and then gathered all related files of all types into Productions within FCSvr. That works for us, but something totally different might work for you.
On your second question, how is your existing storage organized into folders? Does each project get its own column of directories? Some other way? FCSvr can scan your storage using Production Scans to automatically turn folders full of files into Productions full of Assets and assign the folder name to the Production. That is the most automatic way to absorb an existing setup into FCSvr, but it only makes sense under certain conditions.
Finally, the way FCSvr makes life easier is via its automation capabilities. Learn how responses, subscriptions, watchers, and schedules work together. Think about how they can trigger each other. You can, for instance, set up subscriptions that will automatically send an email to a producer when a Production is ready for review. You can set up watch folders that will automatically encode files for use in making DVDs. You can trigger scripts and issue certain Terminal commands. Experienced users are finding a lot of things to improve on (it is a version 1 product after all), but even at this early stage the product is very robust.
After you get the hang of responses, subscriptions, watchers, and schedules you'll have this "eureka!" moment when you suddenly realize the true potential of FCSvr.
Good luck!

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.

FINAL CUT SERVER: Is it for me?

THE FINAL CUT SERVER, is it for me?
I have a small production company, where at the moment, we only edit on one MacPro 8Core 3.0 GHz. I wanted to know if we should be interested in the Final Cut Server and why?
Secondly, can anyone tell me some brand name examples of an "AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card"? I have the ATI card that came factory with my MacPro .

Where you only have one machine, I would say at this point it would only be helpful because of the easy-to-use versioning capabilities - basically, it keeps backups of different versions of your Final Cut project so if you really screw up your edit you can restore a previous version. If you're technically inclined (or know someone who is), you could set this up yourself with a free version control system such as Subversion.
Go here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301347 to see the requirements for Quartz Extreme. It also has a walk-through to show you how you can figure out if your video card supports it via System Profiler (which it definitely is).

Final Cut Server (FCSvr) missing the Edit Proxies Device in the Advanced Administration Pane.

Final Cut Server (FCSvr) missing the Edit Proxies Device in the Advanced Administration Pane.
If for any reason an Admin has mistakenly or purposely deleted the Edit Proxies device
from the FCSvr Java Admin, and you'd like to restore connective to it following the instructions below.
Note verify these symptoms, open the FCSvr Java Admin, Go to Preferences and the Proxies Pane and inspect
If the field and drop down for Edit Proxies is missing please backup your FCSvr DB manually and following the steps below to restore connectivity.
1. From the Terminal from the following command
          cd /Library/Application\ Support/Final\ Cut\ Server/Final\ Cut\ Server.bundle/Contents/MacOS/
2. Next run the following command
           ./fcsvr_client getmd --xml /prefs/0 > ~/Desktop/prefs0.xml
This will output a XML file containing the Final Cut Server Global Preferences to the Desktop folder of the currently logged in user.
3. Using for favorite XML Text Editor (mine is TextMate) open the file that was output
4. Notice the XML element and attribute values between lines 29 and 31
<value id="PROXY_CLIP_EDIT_DEVICE">
   <address>/dev/3</address>
</value>
5. From the command line run the following command to determine the Device ID for you Edit Proxies device
./fcsvr_client search /dev
You should get an output similar to what's below.
Address        DEVICE_NAME                   DEVICE_TYPE
/dev/20        Edit Proxies                  contentbase
/dev/9         MEDIA                         filesystem
/dev/1         Proxies                       contentbase
/dev/2         Version                       contentbase
Record the new Device id for the Edit Proxies device.
6. Open up the file /Desktop/prefs0.xml and XML attribute in line 29
   <address>/dev/20</address>
to the value of the Edit Proxies from step 6.
7. Save the /Desktop/prefs0.xml
8. From the command line run the following command
sudo ./fcsvr_client setmd /prefs/0 --xml ~/Desktop/prefs0.xml
enter you admin password if prompted.
9. Close and reopen the FCSvr Java Admin, Go to Preferences and Proxies and inspect
The field and dropdown should reappear.
If for some reason this didn't work, feel free to contact me offline.
Nicholas Stokes
[email protected]

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.

Importing Metadata to Final Cut Server from Excel

I'm getting ready to implement Final Cut Sever on an extremely asset-heavy media project, and I'm in need of a way to batch-import custom metadata from an excel spreadsheet.
Does anyone know if Final Cut Server has way to do this out of the box?
Specifically, if I have a an excel doc where column A = file name (of all media files) and columns b-??? = custom metadata, how can bring that information into FCS so that I can search my assets by the custom metadata?
DL

Yes it can be done but with the help of scripts.
If I have to do it today I would try to save those excel into a comma separated plain text files. Then I would build an script to read those columns of data from the text file (easy with awk command) and then write those fields to the FCS metadata. The tricky part is to link the file to the right asset inside final (you need to get the asset ID from the asset to be able to "setmd") The best way for me to do this (without accesing the database itself) is to have the name of the file (the plain text file) to be the same as the filename of the asset. This way you can then perform a "Write XML" from Final and you get an filename.xml where the Asset ID is located. After this is easy to build a custom XML file to fill with the excel metadata and perform a "setmd" to write back to FCS.
Hope this help

Final cut server not serving java client application

weird situation. today i went to download the java client for final cut server 1.5.1 at my normal address and the webpage came up welcome.. with the ability to download the client application as normal but when i pressed the button to download nothing happened.
anyone have any ideas how to resolve this? manually removed all of the client java cache on the client machine and also reinstalled fcs 1.5.1 on the server with a restore of the database without any change in functionality. any ideas?

hello ben,
thanks for taking your time to help me with the issue i am seeing here. I will do my best to read into what you said and explain.
1. Network User Permissions Problems.
maybe you can explain, but i have not authenticated against anything at this point, just went to the normal.. "http://FQDN/finalcutserver"... the normal fcserver webpage comes up but when i click download it does not give me the ability to download the java applet or run a script that maybe delivers the java applet.
maybe i am not understanding, but what about what i am experiencing looks like a permission issue? permission for fcserver to distribute the java applet to a user who goes to the final cut server web page to download the client?
If that is the case, would you know where to start looking for permission issues?
2. Verfy the web server services and comb through the user permissions and services on the server.
The web services, service is on and when i look at the logs with any reference of final cut server, this is what i see right after when i try to download the client app.
File does not exist:/Library/WebServer/Documents/FinalCutServer, referer: http://FQDN/~localadmin/webstart/content.php
as far as the user permissions, what should i look for? there are very few users, the local admin, the open directory admin and 1 other user in od.
with regard to services running on server 10.6.1 and how they affect final cut server.. checked use of how i would use AFP, DNS lookups, OpenDirectory & network homes, and Web services and appear to be working as far as i can tell.
hope the above information helps. thanks in advance for helping troubleshoot.

Final cut server makes MacOSX freeze

Hello,
We have a FCServer installed in network enviroment withe three clients. After many incidents we decided to reinstall everything from zero, MAC OS Server and FCServer.
now the problem is that when uploading projets from any client machine the server freezes and we have to restart the system.
We saw in the console that the problem may come from the apple Qmaster and compresor.
Any ideas of the best configuration in order that Qmaster and compressor work properly with FCServer?
or if this problem comes from somewhere else?
thanks for your help

We are running into a similar problem using a similar configuration. When we start a large number of transcode operations the Final Cut Server become unresponsive to new connections, which also gives the appearance to new connections that the server has crashed. Clients with existing connections active can still search and browse the server like normal.
Currently we have 28 transcode operations active. The server reports 300% on the Compressor process. When we try to connect with the client a frozen spinning wheel appears as it tries to apply the previous search that the account had previously logged out with. Waiting for multiple minutes does not help anything. This is repeatable on other clients, which tells me this is a server side issue.

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?

Red Footage and Final Cut Server

Aloha gang-
I am still testing FCS in our studio and enjoy many of the features in this product. I love being able to search for footage and pull it into my FCP project with no waiting (using edit-in-place). But I am looking for some advice and knowledge regarding Red Footage.
My scenerio is this:
We render all our red footage to offline files that we will use in the post production process. I want to tag all those files with appropriate metadata so our edit team can search and retrieve files as they need it. But with red there are 7 files (in our workflow) that correspond to the same thing. Basically there is the original R3D file which can not be used in FCP, there are the 4 quicktime proxies that the camera generates and live in the same folder as the R3D, and these are the files I want to get back to after the production is through and archived. There is the offline quicktime we generate to edit with which we need to tag. There is a log and transfer quicktime we can log and transfer all this data to FCS (but it doubles the data size so I am not looking to use this one and edit performance is okay at best), and finally there is the folder that the 4 proxies and original red file live in.
All of these files should be search able by the same metadata. Imagine the shot is of a blue bird. When I type blue bird I would want all of these files to show up (obviously I could limit my search so I only get the version I need for what I am doing i.e. offline, proxie, etc. I have made metadata lookups for this so this is not the challenge.)
The challenge is I only want to log 1 of these files and have the metadata applied to all of them. They all have almost identical names. The offline, R3D, and folder file have the exact same name. The proxies are identical but with _F, _H, _M, and _P behind them. For the catalog process I only want to transcode proxies for the _M (The _F, _H take way too long and the proxies look the same as _M and the _P is too small
I could make them a bundle but that does not help too much as the offline lives in a different place as the footage.
Any ideas would be greatful. My easiest solution is to tag the files twice, once for the production and once for the archive, but this seems like a waste of time that I could have a computer do instead
P.S. anyone successful in getting the metadata out of the red file, I see the red metadata set, and have it in place, but can not get it to show anything no matter which file I upload.
Any ideas, or help would be great
mahalo
scott

Thank you for your replies. I guess my question is not really answered because of the conundrum associated with red footage
But my workflow to get through this will be as follows: (In case anyone is interested)
Set a scan to bring in the offline quicktimes as they are rendered and have someone tag them with meaningful tags to help us search during the production. I will send those to archive when we are done.
After the project is completed and the files are removed from Final Cut Server I will set a scan to import all the _M files (they transcode faster and quality is not an issue since it is making proxies) and tag them as best I can for the long haul (archive) I can either leave the media on the drive or back it up, depending on the immediate use of the files. This works very well if the media is still there as I can just drag the _M into Clipfinder and render the shot I need as I need it.
I am storing these clips in folders labeled CC_LTOXXX (where XXX is the number for the LTO tape which increases by one for each tape I use. When I import them into Final Cut Server from the LTO folder I have a direct line to which LTO tape the file lives on. It's not easy to get the files back (so with files used frequently I will also keep a copy on an external drive I can just plug in) from an LTO, but it is doable.
If anyone has an easy way to pull a list of files from an LTO tape that would be great, and even better if it could be a list Final Cut Server made, or if Final Cut Server could just pull the files. My LTO is a network drive so I would have to access it through an IP address, but if I could do that I would be golden.
Anyway I know this will all evolve and this is just where I am right now, any ideas would be appreciated.
Mahalo
scott

Final Cut Server tells me field name existing, but I can't see it

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