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April 8, 2008

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Final Cut is finally ready to Serve

Posted Apr. 8, ’08, 7:44 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

Final Cut ServerYou’d be excused for thinking, as we did, that Final Cut Server, which came out this morning when the Apple Store came back up, had been released already. Apple officially announced the cross-platform asset management solution about a year ago at NAB, at which point the intended shipping date was that summer. They missed that margin just a wee bit, however.

If you’ve forgotten exactly what the purpose of Final Cut Server was since it was lost in the ravages of time, let us refresh your memory: billed as “media asset management and workflow automation software,” Final Cut Server is intended for those video and film production professionals who need to coordinate tasks over a large number of users. FCS handles the work of automatically cataloging your assets and makes it easy to share them with an entire production team. If this doesn’t have you jumping up and down for joy, then either this isn’t software that you’re likely to need or, just as likely, we’ve poorly explained its many attractive qualities.

Final Cut Server is available immediately—if not sooner. $999 will net you one license for the server and 10 concurrent clients, while $1999 will get you unlimited clients. Make sure to take a gander at the system requirements though; they’re not too strenuous, but you won’t be able to use any Macs with integrated graphics, so keep that in mind.


1 Comments

Dave-O said:

Hmm, "ravages of time" but no Dr. Who reference. Who are you, and why are you posting under Dan Moren's name?

April 8, 2008 1:43 PM

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