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Installation and Configuration
About Creating Devices
There are two methods you can use to add and modify devices within
Final Cut Server: using Device Setup Assistant in Final Cut Server System Preferences
and using the Devices pane of the client’s Administration window.
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 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 device using a Contentbase file system or an edit-in-place device that does
not use an Xsan volume. However, you can modify a device created with Device Setup
Assistant in the Administration window, configuring the more esoteric settings.
Important:
Contentbase devices do not appear in the Devices pane of Final Cut Server
System Preferences. All other devices, including those created by the installer and using
the client’s Administration window, appear in the Devices pane of Final Cut Server
System Preferences.
About Creating Devices Using the Administration Window
The Devices pane of the Administration window gives you access to 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
non-Xsan based edit-in-place devices.
Although you can configure network devices with the Administration window, it is
more difficult with its variety of settings.
,” on page 163 for information on using the
Administration window for managing your devices. See “
on page 172 for more information on edit-in-place devices.