If you work with a storage system larger than 10TB and let’s say houndred thousands or more files stored on it, saving these data as a backup or mirror can be quite challenging.
I know many systems, which solely rely on RAID level 5 as the only security feature, which is

Lately I’ve seen more and more people connecting their Final Cut Server systems to other MAMs, and one of the main questions in these “multiple MAMs” environments is how to exchange metadata in between the different systems.

If you want to copy asset metadata from an external MAM into Final Cut

Well, everybody seems to be asking why the iPad can’t print files, yet.

If you are looking for iPad printing solutions, you might have come across funny approaches like this one, but this article is about a serious solution.

Credits: to use Mac OS X Server’s mail services to provide printing

Many of us would like to use Final Cut Server (FCSvr) as an archive solution to write high res media files to tape (or disks).
By default, FCSvr can write archives onto various file systems, but it can’t directly access tape drives.

Now download my little middleware tool fiprecon to connect

If you’d like a copy of the Final Cut Server presentation I will give in London at the VideoVisions event in London next week, here it is.

Besides other topics the presentation deals with

Rough Cut Editing
FCSvr CLI
XML and data exchange with other MAMs
Automatic fetching of news feeds incl. XML metadata
Working