Final Cut Server really is an amazing piece of software. It remarkably customizable and though complex, even a hack like myself can start to move around it pretty easily.
That said, the real complexity is not even in the software. The real complexity lies in your workflow and the personalities that drive it.
Right now I'm trying to figure out what our workflow is (it's pretty much all over the map) and what it should be.
The problem with an awesome, strategic, comprehensive workflow is people. People actually have to do the things you want them to. They have to enter the right data, in the right spots in a consistent manner.
That is the tricky bit and that is human nature. You have to design a path that will actually be walked. If you do anything else, and you kid yourself that you'll make people stay on the path, you're in for a surprise. You can't make anyone stay on the path, they have to decide to stay on the path.
We had a huge control vocabulary that would bring our cataloguing up to library standards. I slashed and burned the thing. There is no way anyone would ever go to that level of detail when uploading data. They'd go around it and we'd have a totally flawed system.
So I've simplified. Hopefully the simplified system will work out. It doesn't ask for much effort, just consistent effort. We'll see how well that works.
After all the system to have all our stories have a simple 3-4 word title that is consistent from raw footage to final delivery, is hardly a success, and that is about as easy as you get.
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Consistency from different people? dream on you dreaming dreamerson
Yeah I know. Foolproof systems don't exist.
I did however add a button on the metadata page that is mandatory and called "did you".
There is a drop down menu and you have two answers "add metadata" "ignore metadata"
It forces people to go to the page and interact which hopefully reminds everyone to add metadata while at the same time reminding them that I am a jerk.
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