User guide
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Welcome to Final Cut Server
Final Cut Server is extremely exible and congurable. It is also
designed to become fully functional quickly, allowing you to
expand its capabilities as your needs grow.
This booklet provides instructions for installing and setting up Final Cut Server.
About Final Cut Server
Final Cut Server is powerful media asset management and workow automation
software. Final Cut Server makes it easy to manage large collections of media les. Its
capabilities also extend to tracking job status, orchestrating reviews and approvals, and
automating complex sequences of tasks—all in a single product designed to work with
Final Cut Pro.
Installing Final Cut Server also installs Compressor. This powerful transcoding
application provides Final Cut Server with a large variety of precongured transcode
settings that you can use when uploading or copying media les to Final Cut Server
devices. You can also create custom settings in Compressor that you can add to the
Final Cut Server transcode settings list.