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CatDV is the asset management tool at the heart
of your workflow, managing 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.
When production deadlines are tight, and budgets tighter still, CatDV
is the cost-effective, flexible solution to the challenges of managing
a large number of media assets.
Cross-platform and highly scalable, and
now with enhanced automation capabilities to simplify the most complex
workflows, CatDV meets the needs of everyone from individuals to studios
and large production houses.
CatDV 8.0 Standard Edition
Designed for anyone who uses a DV camcorder or digital camera, CatDV 8.0
Standard Edition is the ideal low cost tool to help you keep track of all
your media.
Key features of Standard Edition
- 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 slide shows of selected stills or clips
- Export clips to a
different codec or as a web page.
CatDV 8.0 Standard Edition is available for Macintosh and Windows. It provides all the core
features common to the CatDV platform.
CatDV 8.0 Standard Edition also offers a convenient entry point and
upgrade path to the workgroup features, enhanced search capabilities,
and professional video file formats supported in CatDV 8.0 Professional
Edition. (Catalogs are fully compatible between Mac and Windows versions
of CatDV 8.0 and are upwardly compatible between Standard and Professional
Editions.)
Are you an existing user? If so, read why you should upgrade
to CatDV
8.0, and why you should go "Pro".
CatDV 8.0 Professional Edition
CatDV 8.0 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
MXF, PDF, XDCAM, 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, import Avid or P2 clips and automatically sync up
video and audio as an MXF metaclip.
CatDV 8 New Features
- Improved view configuration, including enhanced film strip views
and an optional HTML Summary view in the clip details panel
- 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)
- 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.
Live Capture Plus 2.1
With Live Capture Plus you can easily capture an entire DV tape to disk,
either at full DV resolution or using various compressed, lower quality
preview formats. And if you use CatDV you can build up a CatDV catalog
as a permanent and searchable record of your tapes' contents by directly
creating previews and entering log notes in a single pass. View
screenshots.
Live Capture Plus Features
- Full DV device control
- Advanced, patent-pending capture technology
- Automatic retry if dropped frames or tape errors are detected, ensuring
frame perfect captures every time (even when capturing to a slow external
drive)
- Automatic capture of an entire tape or a programmed section between
specified In and Out points
- Automatically split the capture into a separate file for each scene
if desired
- Capture as a raw DV stream, MPEG4, or using any QuickTime codec
- Compress clips in background while capture is in progress, automatically
pausing tape if necessary
- Build up a thumbnail catalog and type in logging comments while a
tape is playing
- Operate as a standalone application or integrated with CatDV
- Automatic handling of timecode resets
- Automatic date-based grouping of clips belonging to the same subject
- New capture architecture guarantees perfect lip synch
- Powerful yet intuitive user interface
- Available now for Windows XP
or Vista, as well Mac OS X 10.3 and later.
New in Live Capture Plus 2.1
- Send clips straight to CatDV
- New iMovie08-compatible file naming scheme is great for iMovie08
users suffering from capture problem
- Now available for Windows
- New 'Catalog' panel displays all currently logged clips, making it
easier to navigate back and add further log notes while capture progresses
and new clips are still being added
- Ability to monitor video while it's being captured
- New keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to enter log notes and mark
events while a capture is in progress
- Support for scene detection when capturing HDV downconverted to DV
- Plus many other fixes and enhancements
A discount is
available if you are upgrading from Live Capture Plus 1.0, or if
you order Live Capture Plus at the same time as purchasing or upgrading
to CatDV 8.0. (Live Capture Plus 2.1 is a free update if you already
have Live Capture Plus 2.0 for Mac OS X).
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