CatDV 8.0.2

CatDV 8.0.2 is known  as an interesting and easy-to-use media asset database and video logging product family.

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. Improved view configuration, including enhanced film strip views and an optional HTML Summary view in the clip details panel
2. Improvements to the search dialog, including relative date range searches and an easier to use 'simple' search panel
3. It is now possible to perform a 'quick search' against the whole of the server, not just clips open in memory
4. Verbatim Logger Plus includes a resizable player window, spell checking, and programmable keyboard macros (for example, press F1 to insert an event marker when a goal is scored, F2 for a penalty)
5. The new Voiceover tool allows you to record a voice over commentary track over a sequence
6. The media player can optionally display an audio waveform for more accurate selection of In and Out points
7. Numerous minor fixes and improvements, such as easier management of large picklists, an optional 'tethered' mode to keep the catalog window synchronized with the server, better timecode support, and more
8. Automatically synchronize audio and video tracks from MXF files for seamless handling of Panasonic P2 and Avid media
9. Support for the Java Media Framwork permits use of third party codecs such as FFMPEG for import and playback of additioanl media formats
10. New importers to read metadata from MXF, MPEG, PDF and HDV files
11. New Quick View information dialog displays information about selected media and other files without having to import them, including QuickTime information, a quick viewer for text files and ZIP archives, and a hex viewer for binary files
12. Support for adding QuickTime metadata annotations when exporting files
13. Better control over which importer to use when importing media files
14. Major enhancements when browsing the contents of the server via the tree, such as being able to play clips or move them between catalogs without having to open a new catalog window
15. The tree now lists individual files as well as folders, making it easy to analyse or play any clip without having to import it into a catalog first
16. Smart folders let you quickly select clips in memory or perform queries against the server ("show me all clips assigned to me whose status is 'Awaiting Approval' and which are more than 3 days old")
17. Combine several Group By filter terms by selecting multiple items in the tree
18. Folders are now spring loaded

Requirements:

• Macintosh (PowerPC or Intel) running Mac OS X 10.4 or later, or Windows PC running Windows XP or Vista
• 1024 MB of memory or more (for large catalogs with many thumbnails more memory may be needed)
• QuickTime 7.0 or later, including QuickTime for Java
• Java 1.4.2 or later