Apple Final Cut Server - Manual (Page 78)

78 Part I Installation and Configuration
Final Cut Server provides two methods for creating automations: using Automation
Setup Assistant (described in this chapter) and using the client’s Administration window.
About Creating Automations Using Automation Setup Assistant
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.
About Creating Automations Using the Administration Window
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 configure simple automations.
See Chapter 14, “ Managing Automations ,” on page 193 for detailed information.
About the Default Automations
The installer creates default watchers based on the customer profile you selected.
Following are two examples:
 Media to Library [Copy] watcher: This file 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 first in the watcher’s name. Depending on the customer profile 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 configured to copy any media added to any of these
folders to the Library device with no transcoding of the media.
 Assets Ready for Review [Email] subscription: This metadata subscription monitors all
assets in the catalog and sends an email whenever any of the assets have their
metadata changed to the Ready for Review state. This subscription (and any others
using email responses that were created by the installer) uses the email addresses
you enter or email addresses entered as an asset’s required reviewers.
You can modify any of the default automations or create new ones using the
Automations pane. You can control whether these automations are active or not with
their On checkboxes (by default they are all disabled).
See “ Editing an Existing Automation ” on page 88 for information on editing an
automation.