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Chapter 7 Using Automation Setup Assistant
Final Cut Server provides two methods for creating automations: using Automation Setup
Assistant (described in this chapter) and using the client’s Administration window.
Automation Setup Assistant makes it easy to create the most commonly used
automations. You can also modify any of the automations you create, including the
default automations created by the Final Cut Server Installer.
The Final Cut Server client’s Administration window contains a set of panes that make
it possible to create highly complex automations. The drawback of this is that it is a bit
complicated to congure simple automations. For details on using the Administration
window to create automations, see the Final Cut Server Administrator Guide.
About the Default Automations
The installer creates default watchers based on the customer prole you selected.
Following are two examples:
Media to Library [Copy] watcher:
This le system watcher monitors the Watchers
device’s Media folder (created by the installer) and automatically copies any new
assets in it to the Library device with no conversion. It also then deletes the assets
from the Watchers device’s Media folder.
These watchers are all based on subfolders in the Watchers device. The name of the
folder is listed rst in the watcher’s name. Depending on the customer prole you
selected during installation, these folders can include Graphic and Media. These
watchers also apply suitable metadata sets to each folder’s assets.
All of these automations are congured to copy any media added to any of these
folders to the Library device with no transcoding of the media.