Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Migrating from Final Cut Server

Many of us have been using Apple’s Media Asset Management solution Final Cut Server (FCSvr).

Despite its shortcomings like missing rough cut editor, no native tape support for archives, lack of decent UTF-8 level 3 support when importing and exporting XML files, even today, almost two years after its last update and more than six months after Apple has dropped it, Final Cut Server seems to be the best asset management and workflow automation system for FCP7 clients.

Edit remote files using your local BBEdit app and a secure ssh connection

I need to edit text files sitting on remote machines all the time, and usually the only fast and secure connection I got is an ssh connection.

New free tool for Mac OS X and Amazon S3 integration available from Archiware Tech Labs

Archive / Backup / Synchronize vendor Archiware hast released a free, FUSE based tool to mount your Amazon S3 storage in your Mac’s file system.

The tool is called WingFS and can be found on the brand new Archiware Technical Blog.