Re: Final Cut Server Storage

There are three different device types that FCS uses. Forget about Contentbase, it's really down to an FTP or a Filesystem device. So it will only be able to interact with a Unity if it were somehow mounted as a drive on the actual FCS server machine. Then it's just another drive that can be scanned for assets or involved in a file watcher scheme.

I would seriously consider the Final Cut Server option, but why not try and ease into in? Got a decent Mac platform? Go get yourself a cheap USB or Firewire external drive and plow a version of OS X onto it. Then, boot it up off the external drive and install a basic FCS. I just did this recently, it's actually very easy. Then start messing around with it. At some point, if it looks like it will work in your environment, you can always ditch the science experiment and go get yourself a XServer. It's not going to be all that hard to replicate the metadata structure and the workflows. And think about how much you will learn about the system in the process.