Bryson Jones
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Yes, you can export in several formats out of Filemaker and import that into CatDV. (Sometimes a trip through Excel is nice to clean things up.)
Tab Separated Text and XML both work.
If you need to do this often, probably an XML with an XSLT to match CatDV’s import format is best.
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Search Keyboard Shortcuts in the help There’s a great set there.
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First Rule of CatDV:
“Try it on a test set of data.”
Your answer is yes. We regularly fire proxy jobs of thousands of clips at once on large systems.
Note that on the client app, you should test to see how fast your system makes proxy so you don’t choose 400 hours of proxy to create.
Part of the magic of CatDV is the ability to do operations on hundreds of clips at once, tagging, proxy creation, renaming etc..
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Good one Brad. 😉
The thing is, remember that CatDV is an Asset Management system so it will return lists of assets, not markers.
There is no marker search capability that will return a list of markers that match the value.
However, you can quickly look inside the clip and see what the markers are.
This is why metadata schema design and workflow are so important in setting up a system. If you have to search for something constantly, make sure it’s in a clip specific field or that your media is divided up in a way that makes locating these areas possible.
In the end, I might add, don’t overthink it. If you’re coming from no DAM at all, just finding the clip is pretty amazing. If it’s something that important, perhaps it should be a subclip or some other division of the clip?
As Mr. Duggan taught me long ago in the swamps of Dagobah, it’s often the way you lay out your data as much as the tool that makes a workflow possible.
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Permissions are controlled by your OS. CatDV merely points and shows the path.
What tends to happen is that people define a drive that they only have read only permissions to and then of course CatDV can’t write to it.
You can google permissions checking for whichever OS you are on. On a Mac you can “get info” on the folder or drive to check that you have read/write.
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From the help section:
“Specify names and types for user-defined columns or create additional columns. The FCP Preset button automatically sets user column names to match Final Cut Pro. Use the Built-in Fields button to customise the names of pre-defined attributes. You can also define Marker Categories from this tab. (Professional Edition only)”
Be careful with this tab however, as you can really muck things up in your db without realizing it. (Especially if you swap files with another CatDV user.)
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Most likely, without any more info, it’s the permissions on your proxy folder/volume.
Check that under media search paths and make sure you have read/write to that directory.
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Rob, as you read about MME, just replace FCP with CatDV, as they share the XML and all, it’s really the same thing in a way.
I’m curious about your mention of capturing Avid media. What are you using to do that? I know BlackMagic and others say they can but it’s really .mov wrapper, not true Avid MXF you can drop into the “1” folder. Is that what you’re talking about or are you doing a fast import? From what I know, only a few expensive devices can actually make Avid MXF media you can edit without import or transcode.
The things that make Avid more stable (the db and its own MXF format) are what frustrates outside developers. Once you are away from paths, no one else can play. The online/offline relinks you talk about are done in their db, not in the filesystem. Wonderful but not very open.
I’m hoping AMA gives us the hooks and it looks like, for certain workflows, it will. But I’ve been burnt for 4 years on the promise of Media Composer. I’m staying with what I know for now. Oh and then there’s that little bit about Avid bleeding money every quarter… How long do you get to do that before the doors close? I refuse to even consider what would happen to us all. Hey Adobe, wanna buy a company cheap?
Let me know on that media, but I’m guessing you’re still importing, yes?
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Kevin, I think I might have this client in LA set up to use MME. Timeline and politics-wise it’s been a long one. (Just tons of documentation and training, you know the drill.) But I believe that it might be a solid spot to implement MME or at least confirm that Avid is catching up to your forward-thinking workflow.
I’ll hit you off the board and discuss but I think we’ll all have a very different landscape in the coming months for these sorts of workflows.
Rob, I hear ya, in places where producers can and will do a rough cut, it’s pretty nice to have it waiting for you. 😉 I’ll keep the board posted on this as it move along. We just got it rolling right before the break, as I said.
Question for ya, is it mostly the rough cut or are you also using the included clip “user” metadata in your edit process?
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Rob, we’ve been on a broadcast gig most of this last year and right as we went to holiday break we cracked a couple of things. We’re developing an interesting AMA workflow for dealing with Archive and MAM using CatDV.
In the end, Interplay is the best way to do all of this with Avid. If you can afford it, buy it. (Yes, I just said that on this forum but it’s true… IF you have the money. A lot of folks don’t.)
The auto relink in FCP has actually never been a big feature for my clients. I’m not sure why but they’ve all just seemed to get by happily without the drag and drop. If you’re just dealing with media management and archive, I feel like this AMA workflow is going to make for a pretty interesting 2013.
I’m interested to see what Squarebox brings on the Avid side. Hopefully between their coding and our workflow innovations we can deliver some solid Avid workflows.
For the record, my first CatDV client (over 5 years ago) was Avid based and still uses CatDV happily for logging and producer access even without a CatDV “hook” to Avid.
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