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

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

On Thursday, March 18th, I will give a talk on Final Cut Server (FCSvr) workflows in Munich, including MXF media files for edit-while-ingest scenarios as well as XML interfaces between FCSvr and other applications.

You will find more details about the session and the event at the VideoVisions site. Please

In many video production environments it’s a challenge to both backup and archive production data.
This is because video data take a reasonable amount of disk space, and you don’t want to interrupt real-time ingest, playback, and playout by backing up your data.

One of the best ways to backup and/or archive