Apple Final Cut Server - Manual (Page 164)

164 Part II General Administration
About Creating Devices Using Device Setup Assistant
Device Setup Assistant in Final Cut Server System Preferences is simple to use and
includes additional features, such as a scan and transcode settings configuration ability.
Manually configuring similar features would require you to use multiple Administration
window panes.
Device Setup Assistant also makes it much easier to install certain kinds of devices,
such as network devices and Xsan volumes, by simplifying the number of settings.
Additionally, Device Setup Assistant verifies all settings you make before allowing you
to continue to the next step. (Devices created with the Administration window are not
verified until you actually use them.)
The drawbacks of using Device Setup Assistant are that you do not have access to some
of the more esoteric settings and that you cannot configure several device types, such as
a Contentbase file system or an edit-in-place device that does not use an Xsan volume.
See Chapter 5, “ Using Device Setup Assistant ,” on page 59 for more information about
Device Setup Assistant.
About Creating Devices Using the Administration Window
The Devices pane of the Administration window gives you access to many more device
settings than Device Setup Assistant. Most users, however, do not require these
settings, although they can be useful in some situations. The Administration window is
the only place that you can configure devices using the Contentbase file system or an
edit-in-place device that does not use an Xsan volume.
Although you can configure network devices with the Administration window, it is
more difficult with its variety of settings.
Adding a Device Using the Administration Window
You can add a device using Device Setup Assistant, accessible from Final Cut Server System
Preferences, or you can manually add a device in the client’s Administration window. See
“
Adding a Device ” on page 62 for information on using Device Setup Assistant.
Adding a device with the Administration window is a bit different from adding a device
with System Preferences:
 You must manually configure the device because there is no Device Setup Assistant
as with System Preferences.
 You do not directly add transcode settings to the device in the Devices pane. You
instead assign devices to the transcode settings in the Administration window’s
Transcode Settings pane. See Chapter 13, “
Managing Transcode Settings ,” on
page 187 for more information.