CatDV Standard 8.0 Beta 17 / 7.0.7

Based on the same user interface as the popular CatDV logging tool, CatDV Pro is a cross platform, multi-user media database with extensive meta data support and powerful searching capabilities designed particular to appeal to video professionals.

Main features:
- Build up thumbnail catalogs with searchable metadata and log notes.
- Automatically split a DV movie into separate shots.
- Create and manage preview versions of your footage to use when the originals are offline.
- Present slideshows of selected clips or stills.
- Export clips to a different codec or as a web page.

System requirements:
- 1024 MB of memory or more (for large catalogs with many thumbnails more memory may be needed).
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Version restrictions:
- 30 days trial period.

Enhancements
- Improvements to the search dialog, including relative date range searches and an easier to use simple search panel.
- It is now possible to perform a quick search against the whole of the server, not just clips open in memory.
- 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).
- Improved view configuration, including enhanced film strip views and an optional HTML Summary view in the clip details panel.
- The new Voiceover tool allows you to record a voice over commentary track over a sequence.
- The media player can optionally display an audio waveform for more accurate selection of In and Out points.
- 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.
- Automatically synchronize audio and video tracks from MXF files for seamless handling of Panasonic P2 and Avid media.
- Support for the Java Media Framwork permits use of third party codecs such as FFMPEG for import and playback of additioanl media formats.
- New importers to read metadata from MXF, MPEG, PDF and HDV files.
- 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.
- Support for adding QuickTime metadata annotations when exporting files.
- Better control over which importer to use when importing media files.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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").
- Combine several Group By filter terms by selecting multiple items in the tree.
- Folders are now spring loaded.