CatDV Professional Edition
CatDV 9.0 Professional Edition adds many features of particular interest to production houses and professional users over and above CatDV's core features.
- Excellent integration with Final Cut Pro and other professional editing systems.
- Built in sequence editing, to create rough cut edits from the convenience of your asset management tool.
- Unlimited user-defined metadata attributes to annotate clips.
- Enhanced search dialog, with multiple conditions and logical expressions, named filters, and regular expressions.
- Additional interchange file formats, such as Final Cut Pro XML, Avid ALE, Premiere Pro batch lists, and more.
- Support for image sequences.
- Support for reading metadata from additional file formats, including PDF and XML.
- Verbatim Logger command.
- Log using timecode event markers within a clip or by creating subclips.
- Fully customisable preview settings.
- Customisable clip details panel layout.
- Timezone and camera clock adjustments to permit accurate date-based correlation of shots taken with different cameras.
- Support for standard JKL shuttle controls when playing media.
- Use CatDV Pro as a client to gain access to the networked capabilities provied by the CatDV Server.
- Catalog arbitrary files, not just media files.
- With the optional CatDV MXF Option, read metadata from MXF and XDCAM files, and import Avid or P2 clips and automatically sync up video and audio as an MXF metaclip.
- Cache-A archiving dialog improvements.
- Fix audio only files not playing in protected player.
- Fix relating to burnt in text when exporting movies.
- Fix error that can occur when importing FCP7 XML files.
- Server admin panel is only available to admin users.
- Fix related to exporting P2 spanned clips.
- Minor fixes relating to Undo, reading IPTC metadata, printing, Find command, audio channel display for P2 metaclips, duration of exported 23.98 fps movies, importing tab-separated text, exporting to FCP, and Media Folder grouping node.
- Fix the 'match frame' command in the sequence editor.
- Ensure dialogs can be closed using Esc key.
- Fix sorting of text with accented characters.
- Macintosh (Intel) running Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 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
This product... it confuses me as much as it helps me. Luckily, it helps more often than not, so therefore I'm a fan. It's like a pre-conditioner. This, along with the input app Live Capture Plus is my main import for my FCP workflow. For some reason, my main machine does not like my Canon GL2. (Locks up the external drive every time I plug it in.) So in order to capture my tape, I need to capture it on another machine. This app along with Live Capture is my poor man's Final Cut Server. It logs, does my pre-cuts, and exports to FCP on my main machine—and keeps all the clips available. Still, It's got a huge learning curve and definitely not for the faint of heart.