CatDV 8.0.1

CatDV 8.0.1 belongs to the CatDV media asset database and video logging product family which are designed for anyone who uses a DV camcorder or digital camera. CatDV 8.0 Standard Edition is the ideal low cost tool to help you keep track of all your media. 

Designed for both standalone and networked operation, CatDV is highly scalable so it meets the needs of everyone from individuals all the way through to studios and large production houses:

• Standalone Products
• Networked Products

Despite its name (and the ubiquitousness of the DV format), CatDV is designed for all kinds of digital video and media files, not just DV but also including MPEG-2, MXF, MPEG-4, HDV, Uncompressed, WMV, OMFI, JPEG, WAV, and much more.

Major Features:

1. Build up thumbnail catalogs with searchable metadata and log notes
2. Automatically split a DV movie into separate shots
3. Create and manage preview versions of your footage to use when the originals are offline
4. Present slide shows of selected stills or clips
5. Export clips to a different codec or as a web page.
6. Maintain a catalog of clip data and other media assets, including the source of the clip and where it's used, together with a wide variety of other clip properties that are helpful to the editor
7. Automatically build up thumbnail preview images of each clip or image file and maintain these in its catalog even if the original media goes off-line
8. Create and manage low resolution preview movies, which are available for use even when the original movies are offline
9. Let the user choose how clips are displayed, in a spreadsheet-like table, a grid with thumbnails, or both
10. Collect clip data across multiple projects and then group them by source tape, bin, or any other attribute
11. Import and export clips and logging data in virtually any format.