Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Server [Paperback]

Matthew Geller (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321510240 | ISBN-13: 978-0321510242 | Publication Date: May 30, 2008 | Edition: 1

Designed for video-production professionals, Final Cut Server sets the standard for intuitive media asset management, making it easy to manage large collections
of media files efficiently. In this Apple-authorized reference guide, system integrator Matthew Geller takes you on a comprehensive tour of the software, covering everything from tools for tracking, reviewing, and approving jobs to automating complex sequences of tasks in a busy post environment. Along the way, Geller shares essential workflows that will shave hours from your post-production jobs. You’ll learn techniques for searching, cataloging, and finding the right asset quickly, as well as how to handle large quantities of real-time HD video, audio, and still image assets in a fast-paced production environment.

Administrators will find a comprehensive overview of how to set up and configure this powerful collaboration tool, how to customize it to serve individual sites, and how to automate workflows and manage storage locations, users, and groups.

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About the Author

Matthew Geller is a Chicago-based systems integrator, consultant, and all-around technology therapist specializing in digital video post-production installations. He is a certified instructor and courseware author for Apple and helped form the Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group. Matthew is the author of Apple Pro Training Series: Xsan Quick Reference Guide, and co-author of Apple Pro Training Series: Optimizing Your Final Cut Pro System.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (May 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321510240
• ISBN-13: 978-0321510242
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,244,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Computers & Technology > Apple > Final Cut

More About the Author

I've been working with computers since my Dad bought me an Apple II in 1980. Oops, I just dated myself.

Helping people to form better relationships with their technology is my passion, and I've been very blessed in being able to do that in many ways.

As an instructor, I teach classes in creative applications, mostly Apple's Pro Apps. As a senior trainer for Apple, I also teach trainers how to deliver classes to end users. As an author for Peachpit, I've been involved in the creation of many of the books in the Apple Pro Training Series, most notably the Optimizing FCP book and the Xsan Quick Reference Guide.

I have my own consultancy as well, Meta Media Creative Technologies. We have over 35 clients, creative and broadcast facilities worldwide, who we support.

I live my life by the quote from John Coltrane, spoken very late in his life: "I have to keep experimenting. I feel I'm just beginning. I have part of what I want in my grasp, but not all."

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but little more than the manuals, July 4, 2008

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Philip Hodgetts "Serial Entrepreneur" (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Server (Paperback)

I pre-ordered this book and if it had been available when I ordered it, it would have been very helpful. However three weeks later, it was only mildly helpful as I'd already gathered most of the information from the manual. While there appears to be little additional information than is in the manual, the analysis questions and real world situations do make this a worthwhile purchase.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to get you started with Final Cut Server, June 27, 2008

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This review is from: Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Server (Paperback)

If you have Final Cut Server or are thinking about buying it, this book will be a huge help. It coves the concepts you should understand to get you up and running. This is a complex product and getting off on the right foot is important. The book is worth the money in time savings alone.

5.0 out of 5 stars Does Exactly What It Says!, January 12, 2010

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Charles S. Edge (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple Pro Training Series: Getting Started with Final Cut Server (Paperback)

This book is one of the best titled books I've read in a long time. One of the hardest things with Final Cut Server is wrapping your head around everything that the product can do: finding your way through the hype and figuring out how the product can be useful to you. This book is a great overview of what Final Cut Server is and then some of the basic features and installations that you will do.

When the book was published there wasn't a lot of extremely technical information available on Final Cut Server. But since then, sites like Xsanity [...] have introduced mounds of information on the subject. But the information you can find online is not exactly pedagogically sound, and this book is. Great little book!