CatDV 8.0

• 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. Importing media
   • Import any QuickTime-supported media file format (DV, MPEG, AVI, JPEG, GIF, MP3, PNG, AIFF, BMP, PSD, etc.)
   • Import Windows Media files (WMV, WMA, ASF)
   • Create thumbnail images for first or mid frame of each scene, or manually from user-specified frames
   • Customisable thumbnail sizes (from 24x16 to 256x192)
   • Extract standard file and movie attributes (file name, size and date, video and audio compression formats, data rate, etc.)
   • Analyse a captured DV-format movie to extract the date & time of recording, camera exposure details and scene boundary information
   • Warn about any corrupted movies which may cause audio synch or other errors
   • Extract Exif data for digital camera stills, album and artist tags from MP3 files, and other metadata such as author and copyright from movies
2. User interface
   • Intuitive, easy to use, user interface with customisable toolbar, choice of look and feels, and tooltip help
   • Spreadsheet-like list view, with fully customisable columns
   • Storyboard-like grid view, with customisable icon size and attribute display
   • New tree-based navigator, with a unified interface to organise your catalog and browse the file system.
   • Powerful filtering and searching options to restrict a view to a particular project or type of clip
   • Consolidation of duplicate and overlapping clips into summary views to produce a concise description of the contents of a tape
   • Allow multiple catalogs to be open simultaneously, and multiple views open on the same catalog
   • Includes a general purpose timecode calculator
3. Logging
   • Automatically identify scene boundaries, based on DV data or image content
   • Allow user to enter comments, good/no good status, and other user-defined attributes for each clip
   • Logging window allows clips to be previewed and categorised, comments to be entered, in/out selections made, new secondaries created, etc.
4. Media management
   • Consolidate footage (trim unused material; split large files into separate scenes; merge separate capture files that belong to the same scene)
   • When renaming or deleting clips optionally rename or delete corresponding media file from disk
   • Automatically create and manage low resolution preview movies to describe offline tapes. A one hour tape requires as little as a few hundred megabytes, allowing you to keep your entire library online at all times.
   • Analyse media files to extact media metadata and displayed detailed format description of individual tracks.
5. Integration
   • Integrates with virtually any non-linear editing application
   • Import and export a wide variety of file formats containing clip logging information.
   • Import Cinestream projects; import and export CMX edit decision lists, and tab separated text; export batch capture logs for Adobe Premiere, EditDV, Canopus Raptor
   • Create whole tape capture logs for use with the batch capture facility of your non-linear editing application
   • Achieve the repeatability of batch recapture for use with NLEs that don't support this feature
6. Exporting and printing
   • Export clips as self contained or reference movies, keeping original settings or recompressing with a new codec, with either one movie concatenating all the selected clips or a separate movie for each clip
   • Add a security video-style display of recording date/time to exported movies (burnt in or as a separate text track)
   • Export catalogs as HTML
   • Print detailed reports containing all or selected clips according to your chosen view, either with or without thumbnails
   • Print a single page index print or "contact sheet" containing a summary of the contents of a tape, with the name, timecode, recording date and a thumbnail of each scene
   • Print selected images (any number per page)
7. Presenting media
   • Present images in a slide show
   • Present movies and slide shows windowed or full screen, with keyboard control of looping, playback size, speaker volume, and logging commands.
   • Perform rough cut editing by rearranging clips within a storyboard view
   • View the contents of a tape or program using a timeline sequence view