Lesson 4. Creating Assets via Scans and Watchers

Goals   Discover graphic assets

Discover audio assets

Work with watchers

Work with scans

In Lesson 3, you learned how to discover and catalog Final Cut Pro assets. This lesson takes you through the process of acquiring other video, graphic, or audio assets that you might have. You’ll cover two Final Cut Server automation features: scans and watchers.

Before you dive into the particulars of using the Final Cut Server discovery methods, let’s define some key terms:

• A watcher is a folder that usually resides on the shared folder that is commonly aliased to a user’s desktop and waits for a file to be dragged to it. Dragging a file to the watcher triggers an automated set of responses inside Final ...

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