The FPS Interface
My Production View: My Tasks Tab
The My Production view is divided into three different sections: My Tasks, My Takes, and My Notes. Since FPS always opens to the last screen visited in the software, you may have to click the My Production view button at the top of the screen to navigate to that view. The My Tasks tab appears:
• View buttons: The FPS software contains views, tabs, and windows. There are five main views: My Production, Production, Assets, Takes, and Resources.
• Tab buttons: The My Production and Takes views also have subsections called tabs. My Production's subsections are My Tasks, My Takes, and My Notes.
• Sortable headings: The information on the My Tasks tab includes shot name or asset name, task, status, user (which should be your user name), department, due date, and estimated start date. Click any of these headers once to sort the window by the information in that column.
• List of assets, shots or sequences: The My Tasks tab of the My Production view shows you a list of your tasks.
Right-click a task to view this menu (showing Status sub-menu). We'll explain the options in this menu in a later section:
Double-click on any of the tasks to bring up more information in Asset Detail pop-up window. We'll go into more detail about this screen in the Key Functions section:
• Search bar: Type a key word or phrase here and the list appearing in the window above will automatically filter to match your inputs. There's no need to hit the Enter key. To erase a search and do a new one, simply drag and highlight then type over the entry currently in the search bar, or backspace if that is quicker.
• System actively searching database: This is the system clock, and will show a spinning color bar whenever the database is being accessed and requires time to return results to the window you're viewing.
• Notification boxes: At the bottom of the window are the system notification boxes. The left notification box shows a message whenever you have changed data (see example image below) and the changes have not yet been saved. The box on the right notifies you when you need to refresh the screen due to changing data behind the scenes that is different from the data on your screen.
Note: If both boxes are showing a message at the same time, saving your changes could overwrite changes made by someone else simultaneously to the same information.
• Save data button: Performs a save of any changes you've made.
• Refresh data button: Updates the information showing in the window with changes recently made by other users to the database.
My Production View: My Takes Tab
The My Takes tab of the My Production view shows you a list of takes that you have worked on. My Takes is good for tracking the history of rendered shots, and may be very useful for backtracking to a preferred take, seeing thumbnails of that take, and making notes on it.
The information on the My Takes tab includes shot name or asset name, task, take number, review status, user (which should be your user name), department, and tracking number. Click any of these headers once to sort the window by the information in that column.
Right-click a take to view this menu (showing Review Status sub-menu). We'll explain the options in this menu in a later section:
Double-click on any take to bring up more information in the Take Detail pop-up window. We'll go into more detail about this screen in the Key Functions section:
My Production View: My Notes Tab
The My Notes tab of the My Production view shows you a list of notes that other production staff members have sent to you. The information on the My Takes tab includes who the note is for, its subject, status, priority and when it was sent. Use the Search bar to find what you're looking for once you get a lot of notes in this window.
Click the note once to read it in the empty window at the bottom of the screen.
Double-click a note to read more information on the Shot Detail pop-up window.
Production View
The Production view gives a information about all the sequences, shots, shot assets, and assets that have been created in production so far. A single-click on any item in the window, shows its sub-parts in the window to its right until you get to the asset window.
Double-click any item in any of the windows to show more information about it:
• Sequence: opens the Sequence Detail pop-up window:
• Shot: opens the Shot Detail pop-up window (see My Notes tab section above for image).
• Asset: opens the Asset Detail pop-up window (see My Tasks tab section above for image).
Assets View
On the Assets view, you can find a list of asset types and assets created to date. Double-clicking the asset name in the lower window opens the Asset Detail pop-up window.
Takes View: Shot Takes Tab
From the Takes view, check the status of a sequence, shot, and take using the Shot Takes tab.
Double-clicking in any of these panes brings up more information:
• Sequence: opens the Sequence Detail pop-up window.
• Shot: opens the Shot Detail pop-up window.
• Tracking number: opens Take Detail pop-up window (see image in My Takes section above).
Takes View: Asset Takes Tab
Using the Asset Takes tab, check asset types and assets by tracking number.
Double-clicking in any of these panes brings up more information.
• Asset: opens the Asset Detail pop-up window.
• Tracking number: opens the Take Detail pop-up window.
Resources View
The Resources view lists the departments and users that make up all of the production staff. Click items in the department window to bring up the list of users in that department. The window at the bottom compiles the information from your selection into one view.
The Menu Bar
The Menu Bar contains the File, Edit, Tools, and Help menus, which provide access to the functions described below:
FPS
Quit FPS using this menu
File
Use this menu to print.
Edit
This menu contains the often-used copy, cut, and paste commands, along with undo and redo for correcting errors.
Tools
Create reports across Navajo data using the selections available in this menu. Reports include Dailies Director, Task Finder, and Quota Report, to name a few.
Help
Use this menu to pull up this user manual.