CatDV Pro 8.0b21

CatDV Pro 8.0b21 is created as an asset management tool at the heart of your workflow, which helps you manage all aspects of a complete production.

It is a logging tool, ingesting media from tape or disk, and enabling subclipping and tagging of the media to turn them into usable assets. It is a transcoding tool, automatically building offline proxies or web versions of your online media to save on storage and bandwidth. It is a powerful database, letting you browse and search and filter your assets until you find that one special shot that's just perfect. Above all, CatDV is a communication tool, allowing loggers, producers and editors to work together effectively and efficiently. 

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.

Key Advantages:

• CatDV Professional Edition can be used as a client to the optional CatDV Workgroup Server to provide access to multi-user features.
• CatDV Professional Edition features excellent integration with Apple's Final Cut Pro software and other professional NLE systems.
• Other features aimed at professional users include named filters, regular expressions, timezone adjustments, additional importers and exporters, customiable preview settings, and more.
• Professional Edition users receive priority technical support and can submit feature requests to be considered for possible inclusion in future updates.
• Support for reading additional file formats such as MXF and OMFI.

Major Features:

1. Import and analyze any QuickTimesupported media files (incl. DV, MOV, MPEG4, AVI, Flash, WAV, AIFF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PSD)1          
2. Import and analyze Windows Media files (WMV, WMA, ASF)          
3. Import clips and sequences from OMFI files          
4. Import and export tabseparated text, simple batch lists, and CMX edit decision lists  
5. Import and export Final Cut Pro XML files and FCP batch logs          
6. Import and export Avid ALE batch logs          
7. Import other 'unknown' files to capture basic details of files such as Word documents, spreadsheets, project files etc.          
8. Extract and display technical metadata (file format, codec, frame size, duration, data rate, dropped frames, etc.)          
9. Extract and display user metadata (timecode, Exif and ID3 tags, QuickTime annotations, Windows Media properties, etc.)          
10. Enter log notes, mark clips as good, create subclips, merge clips, create or delete thumbnails.    
    
11. Configurable thumbnail or list views, with flexible grouping, sorting, searching and filtering capabilities          
12. Unlimited userdefined logging fields          
13. Customizable clip details panel          
14. Choice between 'classic' and 'professional' (dark grey) colour schemes          
15. Advanced search and filter dialog, including regular expressions and ability to save named filters    
16. Play media for the clip (if available online), either windowed or full screen          
17. Jogshuttle control of playback using standard JKL keys          
18. Timecode calculator          
19. Media file management (delete, move, copy), drag and drop import and export      
20. Perform automatic scene detection using DV info          
21. Perform automatic scene detection using visual analysis (with configurable sensitivity)  
22. Verbatim Logger to transcribe dialog or manually log clips from a video or audio file while it plays 
    
23. Mark events within a clip, jump to an event marker, and convert between event markers and subclips     
    
24. Scan DV tapes to create clip records for each scene  
25. Print catalogs or selected clips, export HTML thumbnail indexes, export to system clipboard, export still images          
26. Generate and manage preview movies (low resolution proxies that are automatically substituted based on tape and timecode if the original media is offline)          
27. Customize codec and quality settings for preview movies.          
28. Batch export movies using any QuickTimesupported codec or exporter (incl. QT MOV, MPEG4, H264, DV Stream, iPod Movie, AVI etc.)          
29. Add timecode tracks to exported movies. Add date & time of recording (for DVbased video)          
30. Add arbitrary text or subtitles to exported movies          
31. Create, edit, play, and export sequences for simple cuts only editing          
32. Timezone and camera clock adjustment to display either location or GMT times and permit synchronization of shots from different cameras          
33. Save catalogs locally as standalone files (providing a cached copy of all the metadata and log notes, even if the media files are offline)

Requirements:

• Macintosh (PowerPC or Intel) running Mac OS X 10.3 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.