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transfer between FCP7 and FCPx via CatDV
Already have the version and did some initial successful tests, but CatDV now officially has info on their website: https://www.squarebox.co.uk/fcpxml.html
I’m not affiliated with CatDV or have any incentives from posting this!
I just just think that CatDV is a really important puzzle piece in all this merry go round of NLE’s and standards. One consistent point to handle your footage and protect the countless hours of logging and organising your footage. CatDV is sometimes a bit daunting to operate, because he has so many metadata fields and has a very technical background, but mostly can be used very straight forward. And it can do things that even FCP7 couldn’t do, like relinking based on TC and reel alone! No need to have exactly matching media files when relinking, or attaching media as CatDV calls it.
Anyhow have a look if you like.
Cheers
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I agree with Carsten, as a user of CatDV Pro for several years now. At first, I wanted a tool that could reduce my digitizing time significantly, which it did beyond my wildest expectations. I now use it several times a week for a variety of media/asset management tasks (much of my media comes from clients and agencies electronically, devoid of any metadata, making it a nightmare to categorically locate).
I’ve wondered how Squarebox might approach the old FCP architecture and the new — thanks for the link, Carsten.
**to expand on one of my most time-saving workflows with CatDV, instead of logging (in this case, from betaSP) (yes, content is still widely distributed via betaSP) individual shots and manually applying a clip naming convention, I now load a “master” clip from tape, which includes all of the shots. I then run the “detect scenes” tool, which makes subclips that I can quickly batch-edit as like-shots, ratings… everything and anything.
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