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DESCRIPTION

CatDV Pro is a clip logging and cataloging application designed to enhance the productivity of video editors using an existing NLE application.

Do you need a way to quickly see what tapes and other media files you've got, not just at the tape or file level but down to individual scenes and shots? Or a tool to take the drudgery out of logging, with advanced features such as automatic scene detection available at an affordable price?

  • Unlimited user defined metadata attributes to annotate clips.
  • Enhanced search dialog, with multiple conditions and logical expressions, named filters, and regular expressions.
  • Additional export file formats, including Avid ALE, dpsVelocity, Final Cut Pro, and XML.
  • Additional import file formats, including Avid OMF and Pinnacle Purple files.
  • Verbatim Logger command.
  • Fully customisable preview settings.
  • Timezone and camera clock adjustments to permit accurate date-based correlation of shots taken with different cameras.
  • Support for standard JKL shuttle controls when playing media.
  • Use CatDV Pro as a client to gain access to the networked capabilities provied by the CatDV Workgroup Server.
  • CatDV Pro users receive priority technical support.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 7.0:
  • Extensive workflow improvements with the networked edition
  • New color scheme makes prolonged working more comfortable
  • Improved search path mechanism to locate media files that may have moved
  • Preview movies can be indexed either by file path or tape name and timecode
  • A new movie controller, with support for dragging In and Out points, visual indication of timecode event markers, and improved keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved sequence editing with a static playhead and new Match Frame and Toggle Subclip Limits commands (professional edition)
  • Enhancements to the tree navigator, including a node to list recently added clips, the ability to copy or move media files across file systems, and a new clip scratch pad to save clips of interest
  • Automatically associate metadata with a media file at the time of import by providing an XML file
  • Access to new QuickTime hi-res, multi-channel audio options when exporting movies
  • Pitch shift correction during high speed playback
  • Automatically computed file hashes and clip ids, and a new Find Duplicates command, allow you to track files as they're moved and identify duplicates
  • Support for image sequences (consecutively numbered still images are automatically converted to a reference movie) and meta clips (allowing you "stack" multiple clips together and treat them as one)
  • Clearer distinction between subclips and master clips, and on- and offline media
  • Preference settings such as view definitions or picklist values for logging fields can be stored on the server so all users on the network have the same settings
  • Automatically poll the server to refresh the catalog if another user has made changes
  • Enhanced tape library management screen with tabbed interface, ability to search across tapes or clips, and barcode reader improvements
  • Production blogs provide a way to communicate 'To Do' lists, contact details, and other information among the team, including links to clips of interest
  • The server control panel has a single button archive command to back up the entire database in one operation
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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Developer:Square Box Systems Ltd.
Downloads:9,096
  - Version d/l:218
Multimedia & Design:Author Tools
License:Demo
Date:14 Jul 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$295.00
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    CatDV Pro X User Reviews (5 posts)Write A Review
    May 29 2007
    *****

    STUDIODAVE56  I am surprised that there has not been a review since 2005. This app has captured without dropped frames for me and correctly separated all clips on a tape without error. I used to use Foottrack.

    I like the filmstrip view for my customers.  (Version 6.0b3)

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    Oct 28 2003
    **½..

    MADRA  potentially promising app but the GUI is sadly, as clunky and unresponsive as all the java apps i've tried under OS X. i've also had it bomb out on me and stop capturing three times [edit: make that four, even while i was writing this!] so far [in the space of one tape] throwing up a not-too-helpful "capture failed (memerror 109)" on each occasion. this is in spite of my having 640MB RAM installed and not much else running. unfortunately this means catDV is not a "set it running and leave it to it" programme, which for this type of application, is a serious drawback.

    back to the drawing board chaps, methinks!  (Version 3.0.8)

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