Meet your new production assistant.

Final Cut Server helps you find assets instantly, share work seamlessly, and automate routine tasks while you do creative work.

Workflow Automation Tools.

Facilities of any size can free up valuable time with workflow automation. Final Cut Server makes it easy to set up automated tasks — for a single activity, your entire workflow, or anything in between — using intuitive, modular tools.

Event-based automation

The basic building block of automation in Final Cut Server is a “watch and respond” sequence. The system watches for an event — a change in a specified metadata field, a new file in a watched folder, or a specified time — then responds with an action or series of actions. For example, if you set Final Cut Server to watch a status metadata field for the value “Publish,” the system can immediately convert media to an output format and push the file to a broadcast server.

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Dramatically reduce manual steps in your workflow by learning to use changes in metadata to automatically trigger transcodes, notifications, and other tasks.

Creating Metadata Subscriptions

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Automatically encode and deliver media by learning how to trigger Final Cut Server to copy and transcode it from a watched folder and even notify the recipient that it's ready for them to use.

Creating Watchers

Modular automation tools

To automate a task, simply specify the watched event, then indicate which actions should occur as the result. To create a larger workflow, just define a sequence of automated tasks. Large-scale, facilitywide workflows can be constructed by chaining together these basic elements. Because Final Cut Server automations are completely modular, you can easily set up workflows that are a perfect fit with the way you work.

Convenient workflow templates

Workflow templates configured for your type of facility can help get you up and running within minutes. Choose from preconfigured setups including Television Station, Video Production, Film Post-Production, and Education. Easily customize the templates over time to create exactly the workflow you need.

Basic and advanced automation options

Final Cut Server makes it easy to create automations. Use the Automation Setup Assistant to quickly pair events and responses for a wide variety of common tasks. Use advanced automation features for an even greater array of options. Or you can create scripts to send XML and executable commands to external systems such as web servers, broadcast servers, and archive systems.