Goodbye Final Cut Server
Submitted by JonThompson on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:00pm
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It appears that the FCS page on Apple's site redirects to FCP, and it is no longer available in the store.
It appears that the FCS page on Apple's site redirects to FCP, and it is no longer available in the store.
Important Information about Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Server
Effective June 21, 2011, Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, and Final Cut Server have reached end of life. Resellers may return any unsold inventory to Apple. If resellers opt to return unsold inventory, it will not count against the reseller return cap. See standard policies and procedures regarding returns for more information.
-Trevor Carlson
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So... who has the best idea for a replacement asset management system, with a very similar feature set, and equal ease of use?
That is terrible news.
Also, does anyone know if FCPX will be compatible with Final Cut Server 1.5.2?
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HandyGeek
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-Trevor Carlson
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i Think final cut pro x will get more features over the next year... nobody should be upgrading right away anyway
-Trevor Carlson
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HandyGeek
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-Trevor Carlson
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I hated FCP server,
We installed it along with Apple Enterprise at a MAJOR entertainment company and the users just could never get motivated to use it, it basically sat with a huge custom build out for 2 years doing nothing.
It was everything I hated about interface design and non intuitive features, but that's just me.
What bugs me more is how this same company is going to want to have us install 100+ copies of FCP X... but guess what? since there's no physical media - am I going to make 100 iTunes accounts for the editors so I can upgrade them? Same with Lion.
Not workable in an enterprise environment at all. :(
There are those of us who, after several noble attempts to integrate FCSvr's FCP project management features into our clients' workflows, simply abandoned that part of it (along with annotations, productions and edit proxies).
What has been useful will still be useful to our customers no matter what NLE they use: simple raw asset management, age-based archiving for admin-free maintenance of free space on their shared storage, and most importantly, end-of-process deliverable file creation and distribution, along with manicured metadata. That was always the software's power and will continue to be for our customers who use it.
For goodness' sake, there are folks who still use Artbox for what [i]it/i was good for: still image management and delivery, who wouldn't think of replacing it with an alternative because it works for that portion of their workflow.
We believe that FCSvr will continue to provide that glue for our customers. Sure, we doubt we'll be implementing many more of them going forward, but when it comes time to migrate our clients to the "next best thing" (and CatDV is not the next best thing for [i]every/i workflow), we will poke into the postgres back end, suck all the metadata out with a few custom scripts, and land them into this new system with little effort.
I don't think anyone will (or should) complain that they had trouble literally getting out of Final Cut Server what they put in to it, and that will be the final grace it provides to those who tried over these last three years to utilize what was good about it for their shop.
big word up.
-Trevor Carlson
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When the XServe was cancelled more and more people were wondering about the rest of the "enterprise" products....Well it proves: Apple is not an Enterprise supplier... It is a consumer supplier... And this sucks, big time....
(Even more happy that I can make a living as an iOS developer....... But will for sure start learning other languages as well. Betting on 1 horse is proving to be an ass......... :evil: )
Well back end of FCPX is looking very like iOS apps, Core Data etc. Personally quite exciting by it.
However if I had some spare money I'd be shorting Avid stocks.