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By popular demand…
Hello All,
It gives us special delight to welcome back an old friend — well, a longtime friend (who may be old but we won’t mention that as not to embarrass him or anything) — Dennis Kutchera from Halifax and Helsinki, and to draft a newer member of our team, Jiggy Gaton from Nepal (whom you may have read in our blogs or in the COW Magazine), and for seasoning, the southern-fried spicing of Walter Biscardi from Atlanta, to open this new addition to Creative COW.
From the looks of it, this is one of the great new additions to the Mac users toolkit, and so we welcome you to the COW’s newest forum for CatDV.
So please join us in welcoming CatDV and an international cast starring some of the COW’s best and brightest.
As Gomer Pyle said so long ago guys: “Soo-prize! Soo-prize!” (And now you know for sure that I read the blogs.)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I don’t know anywhere else in the world where you can read Gomer Pyle quotes, so I guess I’m in…but not sure how qualified a user I am, as I still have not gotten CatDV to work in Snow Leopard…but I sure hope to hear from CatDV support team soon.
Btw, I took a re-look at Final Cut Server 1.5, and I am certainly not going down that road…unless I have to:)
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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You don’t have to have all or even many of the answers, Jiggy. Our Cinema 4D forum, for example, was started by a guy who was willing to talk about what he did know — which at the time wasn’t much, as he had just bought the program.
There are forums wherein Tim Wilson and I host as means of learning more ourselves, it is part of the COW Way, Grasshopper.
;o)
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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Good to know Ron, thx. I am like a dog that smells a good bone though, and I will get this to work one way or another…
Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Definitely a HUGE surprise to me too! 🙂
We did have a fantastic demo on the product here this week and I am already planning to take our entire media management system to CatDV as we migrate to a much larger facility. But the beauty of CatDV is that it’s perfect for the one man band and the larger facilities alike.
Seems a heckuva lot easier to use than Final Cut Server. So at the moment my knowledge is a bit limited, but by the end of the year I should at least have a little better handle on how it all works.
Look forward to developing the community.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
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[walter biscardi] “Definitely a HUGE surprise to me too! :-)”
Yes, that damned Bessie Draft is an ugly thing. ;o)
Thanks for playing along, Walter.
We look forward to learning about it, too.
Ron Lindeboom
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Here is the place where CATDV hangs, and this is preventing me from putting this tool into production. For testing, I am just trying to catalog some drives that I have no idea what’s on them FCP-wise, but I don’t have time to go through manually:
After beachballing for a long time, CatDV just blows up. I’ve sent the error log to CatDV support, but no word as of yet…Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Are you using Gridiron Flow? Did you repair permissions? Check your java preferences. I am running with J2Se 5.0 32 bit at the top of the stack. The only problem I have is when I start Flow Then CatDV runs out of memory. And it is usually a hang.
Do you have a website? I will need a contact in Katmandu in the future.
Dennis
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Hi Dennis, thx for the tips. 1) I had gridiron installed once, many moons ago, but all traces of that are long gone, 2) permissions are ok, 3) but no idea about java or where to check that. I am running 10.6.2 so everything should be at the latest level no?
Our website here in KTM is https://www.phoenixstudios.com.np/corporate, or https://www.phoenixstudios.com.np/New%20Music/ if you are a headbanger. There is contact info/map there and we look forward to a visit someday!
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Squarebox support has responded by examining one of my files and my logs, and says:
“I think we might have a fix for the crashing problem! It looks like a
bug in QuickTime, but we have a workaroound that we’re currently
testing.”
So stay tuned. I do remember reading and seeing problems with QT when snow leopard first came out. I remember changing all our machines to use the old QT Pro version and not the new snow QT viewer ’cause everyone hates that with a passion. More soon…Phoenix Studios Nepal: A small A/V Production House in Kathmandu.
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Fantastic! I just bought CatDV after working with the 30-day demo and am in the process of customizing fields and preparing to ingest our XDCAM EX footage. Hopefully I’ll be able to contribute here along the way.
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