Re: Where to start learning FCS?

Start by setting up a simple Watcher. There is a wealth of key concepts you can gain by that. Keep it very simple at first, just have it watch a certain sub directory off of a Filesystem device and have it execute one Copy Response. Have that Copy response push the file into the FCS Media or Library device as an asset and then include one 'Delete Always' response so the watcher folder doesn't fill up with already copied files.

Do it with JPEG files to start,. Don't mess around with video just yet. Then start adding levels of complexity to the Watcher as a whole. Assign some different (still image) transcode settings to the destination device and set the Copy response to use different ones ie Targa, Photoshop etc. Afterwards, start pre-setting certain metadata fields in Copy response. Notice how the asset gets 'stamped' with that metadata as it goes in. Finally, go to the Poll Watcher section of the Watcher and put in some wildcard includes. Pop in *.JPG and *.jpg. Then go and drop a GIF, a PNG and a JPEG file into that watcher. Notice how the watcher skips the former two and only acts upon the latter.

By the way, open up a Search all jobs to see all of this activity. Then go look at the Logs and see what's in there.