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Cat DV Player and Database issues
I am playing with CatDV in an attempt to learn a bit more of the Digital Asset Management concept. I have made several catalogs, about 6 now. Yesterday I started another catalog, dropping a few thousand files into it. After a short interval the clips were all neatly cataloged.
However that is when the issues started. Previously I was able to double click on any on-line clip and have it play in the interface. Now, however, I get only the following error message:
Failed to show media (Failed to open movie using QT or JMF)
The clip is there, I can do a command L and play it in quicktime without problems.
Then, before I left last night I sent CatDV off to make proxies of all the new media. This morning, I still can’t play the clips. I opened an older catalog, and find that the proxies are now cross linked to those clips. Double clicking on a clip from a completely different client opens the poxy from last night.
So my usual solutions to problems, deleting pllist files and uninstalling and re-installing are not of any use. I did not find a preferences file, and a delete and reinstall does not change the behavior.
Any ideas?
-Vance Piccin
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4 Replies
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where are the files stored? Locally or on the network?
what format are the proxies?
and are you making tape-based or path-based proxies (in the proxy/thumbnail settings)
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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I am using the standard version of CatDV on a single machine. All the files are local to that machine. The proxies are M-Jpeg, which I believe is the default for the program. In the Proxies & Thumbnails preferences Based on tape & timecode and Based on path are both checked. Prefer path is not.
If it is important this system is on a Lion (10.7.4) Mac.
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Oh but wait…
I reset the preferences to factory default, and low and behold my media viewer is back. The default is path based and prefer path. I deleted the proxy media from last nights run, so am rebuilding that now.
Thanks Robb, that seems to be the hint that put me back on track.
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path is what you want. It makes a lot more sense as you work with it.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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