[Bob Spencer]

Hi Greg-

Square Box is doing some work right now in the area of expanding the availability of built-in fields for use in searches (Queries), but in the meantime there are other ways you can work to get the same result…

For example, if you search on the built-in metadata field called “Video” with the ‘contains’ operator and the frame size you’re looking for:

“Video ‘contains’ 1920×1080”

CatDV will show any clip whose Video Format field includes that frame size, as a sample field value will be something like “Avid DNxHD Legacy (1920×1080 23.98fps)”.

Another useful trick would be to use filtering to reduce a large set of search results to a specific “Frame Size”, as that field is already currently available for filtering! In the navigation tree, select Filters>Automatic Filters>Technical Fields and you will then be able to see all of the frame size combinations in the found set.

Bob Spencer

Video Technologies Group LLC
http://www.vtgny.com

[Bob Spencer]

Hi Daryl-

There is another variable “$h” which is the first component of the path below the root (in this case the Watch Folder), but if you’re willing to stretch a bit you could use a REGEX expression so that you could target a specific argument within the root regardless of how many path components there are, e.g. the 2nd level after the root.

Regex is fully supported in many areas within Worker and is a very powerful way to control operations and extract metadata from file names, files paths, etc.

Bob Spencer

Video Technologies Group LLC
bob “at” vtgny.com
vtgny.com

[Bob Spencer]

Hi Lindsay-
that is a mac-only feature, but there are some options.

First, here’s a quick snippet from Calibrated’s developer:
“Per CatDV – they have to re-import (i.e. not use the ‘re-import as…’ in CatDV but actually remove and then re-import the files) if they were using our software in DEMO MODE for Calibrated{Q} MXF Import or Calibrated{Q} MP4-EX Import (this is stated in the CatDV sections in the MXF Import User Guide and MP4-EX Import User Guide).

There is a feature in CatDV called ‘Re-Analyse Media’ under the Tool menu header in CatDV that can update the file after licensing our software without needing to re-import the file BUT this feature does not work for ‘metaclips’ in CatDV 8 or CatDV 9 – it was fixed to work with metaclips in CatDV 10 (i.e. if they’re not using CatDV10 then that feature won;t work for them and they’ll have to re-import the files”.

The other thing you can do if you want to preserve metadata tags and logging is to copy the existing CatDV cliprecord into a new catalog, then delete and re-import the media. After the media comes in as a new clip at full duration, you can select it and choose “Paste Metadata” from the Edit menu – you’ll be given the option to paste ‘only if empty’ so you don’t overwrite anything(you may need to go back and copy the original clip again before this step).

Bob Spencer

Video Technologies Group LLC
bob “at” vtgny.com
vtgny.com

[Bob Spencer]

Hi Lindsay-

From the Calibrated manual, you can get instructions to use Calibrated Import Assist’s “REFRESH” feature to reset the length of the media that was imported during demo mode. Look at page 35 here:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/downloads/CalibratedQ-ImportAssist-UserGuide.pdf

Bob Spencer

Video Technologies Group LLC
bob “at” vtgny.com
vtgny.com

[Bob Spencer]

It’s a small club!

There may be one more edit required, as Leo also wants to match for other file types that start with “test” (e.g., testtime.mp4):

try this, which blends the previous methods:
^.*/test[^/]*.*$

Good luck, Leo!

Bob Spencer

Video Technologies Group LLC
bob “at” vtgny.com
vtgny.com

[Bob Spencer]

Hi, Leonid-
I agree that the use of regular expressions opens up some very powerful CatDV functionality, and there are a few integrators like us that have already explored REGEX in detail. For simple explanation and examples, look at the Worker release notes

For your immediate needs, I think you can use a simple match of the filename (“Basic Attributes” under Conditions, or variable $g if used in a formula) which tests for string “test” at the beginning of the filename, e.g.

/^(test)(S+)[^/]*$/

Make sure you remember to check the the REGEX box!

Bob Spencer
Video Technologies Group LLC
bob “at” vtgny dot com