dv business / commercial software for mac

dvReady 1.0 is an easy to use, high performance database utility which can catalog tapes and other mediums for the Video Professional. You can index your tape, comment your shot scenes or print labels for your mini-dv, Beta, DVD or VHS tapes.

CatDV 8.0b18 is a powerful tool for anyone who uses a DV camcorder or digital camera and wants keep track of all their media. You can think of it as all the following, and more:

• "iTunes/iPhoto for movies" Apple's iLife apps are great for MP3s and digital photos but CatDV will do the same for movies and tapes. What's more, CatDV works down to the level of clips and scenes within a movie file or on a tape, described by their timecode, not just at the coarse level of complete files on disk.
• Logging tool: Don't wear out your tape and deck by shuffling it back and forwards as you identify the scenes to use and annotate them. Capture the tape to disk (in compressed form) and log from disk, giving you instant access to any portion of the tape. Use automatic scene detection to take the drudgery out of finding scene boundaries, or use the Verbatim Logger to type in comments, such as notes on the spoken dialogue or the text for subtitles, while the clip is playing - everything you type will automatically be linked to the appropriate timecode.
• "QuickTime Pro" : QuickTime 7 is fantastic technology. It's much more than a file format but a complete set of components for creating and manipulating all kinds of media files (including MPEG-4 files and the amazing new H.264 codec). However, not all its capabilities are available with the standard QuickTime Player application. CatDV unlocks many of the same extra capabilities as QuickTime Pro: you can play movies, present them full screen, edit movies by assembling clips in sequence, and export them using any QuickTime codec (for example to use on the web, CD-ROM, or a 3G phone). If you have a video-capable iPod, use CatDV to generate iPod-compatible videos of all your key footage and take it with you, wherever you are.
• Batch movie conversion: CatDV goes further than QuickTime Pro and lets you batch compress multiple movies, and you can easily export not just whole movies but also individual scenes from within a movie file, or even a complete program defined by an edit decision list.
• Media asset management: CatDV will catalog all your media assets, not just video tapes but also still images, audio files, Flash files, PDFs, etc. With powerful metadata capabilities (both extracted automatically and entered by the user) that can be used for searching and filtering, CatDV will help you organise all those assets - and retrieve them again when you need them.
• Advanced workflows: You might have video files coming in via FTP, or a tapeless camera such as the Sony XDCAM, often with metadata in an associated XML file. You can use CatDV's XML support, and features like watch folders, to build complex automated workflows that preserve your existing metadata, and allow you to add new tags and annotations, at every stage of the process.
• Video editing: Mark and in and out points and quickly create a cuts-only sequence from the clips you've found, all from within your asset management database. Export your edited sequence as a movie, or send an edit decision list to Final Cut Pro (or other non-linear editing application) to finish the editing there.
• Subtitling and text tracks: With CatDV you can quickly and easily add text tracks when exporting movies. Perhaps you want to add subtitles, the clip or project name, or protect your clips by burning in a copyright notice. You can even add a burnt-in display of the timecode or date and time of recording (in the style of a security camera).
• Web page generation: Use CatDV to export web pages with thumbnails and links to low bandwidth versions of your media files, perhaps to advertise a library of stock clips, or create a film strip version of an edited programme to show on your intranet.
• Diagnostic tool: Got a file that won't play properly? CatDV's media analysis tool will display detailed information about the format of the file and individual tracks within it, even down to the durations of individual samples, helping you identify missing codecs, corrupt movies, or dropped frames. CatDV will even natively analyse many formats not supported by QuickTime, such as WMV/ASF and OMF files.

Major Features:

1. Build up thumbnail catalogs with searchable metadata and log notes
2. Automatically split a DV movie into separate shots
3. Create and manage preview versions of your footage to use when the originals are offline
4. Present slide shows of selected stills or clips
5. Export clips to a different codec or as a web page.

Avid Xpress DV is the affordable, real-time DV studio from the company that ignited the digital video revolution. Featuring more customizable real-time effects than any other product in its class, Avid Xpress DV combines legendary Avid ease of use with the powerful tools that continue to define the editing industry.
Main features:
- Industry-defining Editing
- Avid Real-time Architecture
- Expert Color Correction Toolset
- Advanced Productivity Features
- Customizable Tools
- Expandable and Open
- Fast, easy DVD creation.

OnTheAir Video DV 1.5b11 is regarded as an innovative and versatile DV video playback application for MacOS X. It is ideal for video presentation where random access or playlist-based clip playback is essential. With an optional SMPTE timecode reader, OTAVX can be programmed to start up clips at specified timecodes.

BTV 5.4.1 brings you a convenient application for the Macintosh with which you can easily view and capture video. It works with any Macintosh compatible video input source such as video input cards, TV cards, built-in video, USB, DV, and FireWire video sources.

Requirements:

• PPCMac OS 8 or higher
• QuickTime 3.0 or higher
• 2 MB RAM

Divide & Conquer 0.1 is considered as a smart and useful Divide & Conquer OS X helper app(let) for Quicktime Pro, which automates the task of splitting up Quicktime files into archive-sized segments. It has a ReadMe.

Sometimes when I've shot PAL DV footage, I want to archive it to DVD as Quicktime files. A full tape capture will tend to be about 16GB, so I want an unattended way to split that into four DVD-sized chunks which can be re-assembled later if necessary. I started by looking at Laine Lee's DV converter script, which is great and which does something analogous, but I needed my script to allow any kind of Quicktime file as input and to output that same kind of file without any re-compression. The last requirement was that the script would peek at the big file's data rate, whatever kind of Quicktime it was, and make a suggestion for a length in seconds which would fit on a DVD. So that's what it does (this function probably doesn't work that well with variable bitrate files). This is the very first iteration, making it essentially an alpha version (it works perfectly on my system and for my tasks, but who knows), so I'd love some feedback and I definitely want to know if anything doesn't work.

VideoClix allows your viewers to simply click on objects in your videos and purchase products, cast votes or simply get more information about the clicked item ...all without having to stop the video.
VideoClix will help you create entertaining and engaging videos for use on the Web and DVD/CD ROM. Add Object, create Actions, place Chapters and Text tracks... all with a click of a button. There is no scripting language involved.
VideoClix enabled content can be served from any HTTP or RTSP server, tie into any database or eCommerce back-end and does not require additional plug-ins on the client side. The system provides accurate consumer behavior and vital marketing data as well.
Main features:
- Over 300 million VideoClix enabled browsers installed (Quicktime)
- Only ~20KB of additional data added per minute of video
- No additional plug-ins needed on the client side
- Video objects can link to any database or e-commerce backend
- Content can be served from any HTTP or RTSP server
- Create once, publish many (Hi-Low bandwidth)
- Unsurpassed image and frame rate quality
- No recompression or re-encoding of content needed
- Content is Independent of Platform and browser (Mac OS, Windows - I.E., Safari, Firefox...etc)
- Provides accurate consumer behavior, metrics and data mining reports
- Allows you to re-purpose your existing video assets
- Lowers streaming cost and increases R.O.I through new revenue channels
- Works on DVD-ROM, CD-ROM and the Web
- Click and Drag user friendly Interface - No Scripting
- File format: Quicktime, Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Mpeg4, AVI, Flash and DV, H264
Version restrictions:
- 320x240 frame size
- 1 minute video clips
- Project file save disabled.
Enhancements:
- Drop frames over RTSP have been eliminated
- Display text action is optimized
- Databse Query action is added in display text
- Click cue animation is modified
- Other various bug fixes.

QTVR2MOV 1.1.0 is a tool for putting your QTVR panoramas onto DVD or into iMovie. QTVR2MOV enables you to do this by allowing you to specify a panning path around your panorama and then making an image sequence which is then opened up in QT Pro ready for you to export in the format of your choice.

Choice of common movie sizes including DV-PAL and DV-NTSC. Choice of frame rates and duration of panning shot. Visual setting of pan start and pan end positions. "Preview Movie" button "Pan 360" button Live feedback of pan/tilt/fov angles.