ANDRÉ AULICH

Digital Asset Management & Workflow Automation

Archive: November, 2005


Xsan/FCP presentation slides online

Here you see the presentation Björn Adamski and me held back at the MacEXPO UK in London earlier this year. It’s all about Xsan as the basis for a Final Cut workgroup environment. You’ll need QuickTime 7 to view the slides.

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Xsan 1.2 , AFP, and group permissions

Last night I upgraded an Xsan 1.1 broadcast environment to Xsan 1.2. Everything went smoothly, and now the new system offers one great new advantage: If you reshared an Xsan 1.1 volume using AFP, Mac OS X Server and Xsan allowed you to set group permissions for single folders.
If you

Xsan 1.2 just published

Last night Apple released Xsan 1.2. In addition to fixing some minor problems it also provides us with one great new feature: Xsan 1.2 is now optimized to work with large numbers of small files – a feature that is important to store home directories, mail data, or audio files

Photo gallery online

I just published a little photo gallery. It’s based on the Open Source PHP/MySQL application Gallery and runs on the same Mac mini that powers the rest of this website. The whole workflow from shooting to convertig the RAW files to publishing and web distribution is highly automated and

Photoshop Actions for Automator

If you’d like to automate your Photoshop workflow using Automator, go visit http://www.completedigitalphotography.com to download powerful Photoshop actions for Apple’s Automator. If you combine these actions with the upcoming Aperture actions for Automator, you’ll be able to automate the biggest part of your photo workflow. Great, how easy things