CatDV Pro 8.0 Beta 17 / 7.0.7

CatDV is a powerful, cross platform clip logging and cataloging application designed to enhance the productivity of video editors using an existing NLE application.

Main features:
- Maintain a catalog of clip data and other media assets, including the source of the clip and where its used, together with a wide variety of other clip properties that are helpful to the editor.
- 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.
- Create and manage low resolution preview movies, which are available for use even when the original movies are offline.
- Let the user choose how clips are displayed, in a spreadsheet-like table, a grid with thumbnails, or both.
- Collect clip data across multiple projects and then group them by source tape, bin, or any other attribute.
- Import and export clips and logging data in virtually any format.
- 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.
- You can extract artist and album tags from MP3 files, Exif data for digital camera stills and other metadata such as copyright and author from movies.

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.