site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Ryan, 1. Search for desired Motion project in the FC Svr Java interface. 2. Drag the Motion project from FC Svr to Quicktime in the dock. http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutserver.html and let us know what features you would like to see in a future version. thanks, Matt On May 15, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Ryan Gallagher wrote: any ideas? thanks, ryan _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/matt.m%40apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... Final Cut Server 1.0 does not have inbuilt support to analyse Motion project in the same way that it does Final Cut Pro projects. It can happily catalogue and version the motion project, but it's not going to look inside and see what clips are being used by the project, or generate a clip proxy for the motion project. But to achieve your objective of previewing Motion projects, you can do the following: If all of your media is on a Device set up for Edit in Place (eg, XSan, or an AFP share where you have entered EIP information), then the workflow to preview desired motion project would be as follows: And you can then preview the project without having to make sure that any other media was cached. You are also correct in stating that there is no current method to associate external proxy files with an asset. Given that this is a brand new product, we are very interested in feedback about how the software will be used. So if this is a feature that is important to you, then I can recommend that you go here: Currently Final Cut Server supports Motion Projects but is incapable of producing proxy files for them. The thing is any computer with quicktime and motion installed is able to do a realtime preview of motion xmls and compressor can even render directly from motion xml to other video formats. I would really like to coerce Final Cut Server to be able to preview and create proxy files of motion documents. I have tried changing mimes to no avail. All of our motion XMLs use relative URIs and the referenced media exists in the same directory as the project file. If I change my client computer's motion project association to always open with quicktime, and then I make sure to cache any referenced media from final cut server, I can then preview the motion project in quicktime. Its a very impractical solution since we are working with literally hundreds of thousands of motions xml files. It would be nice if Final Cut Server could look and see if any reference media exists on the server and cache it automatically. I was thinking that maybe I could have an external script run all my motion documents through compressor to generate the proxy media, but there doesnt seem to be a way to associate proxy media with source files outside of FCServer's default automated process. This email sent to matt.m@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com