CatDV and Avid Workflow

[Rolf Howarth]

It’s difficult to tell just from the screenshots. If you mail a copy of your catalog to support@squarebox.co.uk we’d be happy to answer specific questions, but some initial feedback:

No, the green film strip icon isn’t a sequence (that’s a red diagonal film strip) but corresponds to a movie file. Other icons represent audio only clips, still images, and subclips. (Of course, there’s no saying what the contents of that movie file it is – it might be a rendered sequence out of Avid, but as far as CatDV is concerned it’s just a single movie file).

The other icon you’re seeing is a blue folder icon for an MXF metaclip, which corresponds to separate video and audio files bundled together and treated as a single clip (for Avid, P2 and XDCAM clips). The Format description for a metaclip tries to summarise the contents of that metaclip. I’m not sure why the P2 clips are showing as MPEG-2, I’d need to check your catalog to know for sure. Ditto for why some clips don’t play. It could be that you don’t have the requisite Calibrated components or codecs installed. Depending on the format you may need a codec in addition to the MXF import component.