[Ed Murphy]

Thank you for that information, Bryson, and thank you for your thorough presentation in those videos. They were easy to watch and basically sold CatDV to me.

The only thing I wish you would’ve gone into greater detail about was the actual roles each component of the software was playing along each step of the way. I assume you were using the server, client, and all of the add-ons, etc. but I still can quite wrap my head around which components our organization might be able to do without. I had the same issue with the information on the CatDV website.

So I figured, maybe it’s just me. Some mental block either temporary or not preventing me from clearly understanding how each component interfaces. So, I downloaded all four available software packages for Mac from their website, and I requested eval codes because I currently have some actual time to test out solutions in house. (This almost never happens!) Well, three days and a second request later, I have still heard nothing back from them…

Are you still an active “reseller of asset management solutions”? If so, I’d like to discuss this further with you if you think you’d like to take on our low budget case. 🙂
We definitely are not in the $100,000 range. I would say we’re looking at a budget of about $10,000 to include MAM and Cache-A or other archival system, depending on how I pitch it to the board.

Please e-mail me ed at dlf dot tv if you’d like to offer your services.

Thanks again!

Ed Murphy
Senior Editor / Technical Director
David Lynch Foundation Television

[Ed Murphy]

Hello Bob,

I appreciate the wealth of knowledge you bring to the Cow.

I am in a similar situation to Austin and have been researching our options. While I am very excited about the possibilities I see with the CatDV tools in these videos https://www.youtube.com/user/catdvexperts , I have to say that I was weary at first because of how unorganized and archaic their website seems.

I am now additionally cautious to make the investment because as I understand their software is based on using legacy 32bit QuickTime (an area I am admittedly not thoroughly versed in) which causes me to wonder how future friendly it is, and even how well it would perform in our existing environment.

We probably will end up going with CatDV, but I wanted to compare and evaluate other options. I have just had very little luck finding any.

After having recommended CatDV, would you say there’s a second best in your opinion? Do others on these forms argue for any competing products or do they simply not exist?

I’m trying to look at Extensis Portfolio 10, but I just don’t “get” it and it doesn’t look to be nearly as conducive to a video biased library like ours as CatDV would.

Thank you,

Ed Murphy
Senior Editor / Technical Director
David Lynch Foundation Television

[Ed Murphy]

I am having the same problem and it is SO aggravating!!

Although I may have a solution. I have only just tried this and it worked once, but I am not claiming it is a fix. If anyone has a better fix, please chime in.

I had been having another problem with a different project for about a week where FCP would simply crash every time I used “undo” – imagine how that will kill your work flow! Yesterday a colleague of mine suggested my sequence may be corrupt, which I thought I had already ruled out…

Anyways, what he suggested to do fixed the “undo” crashing and I tried it today for this multiclip view problem and it fixed that too! (This time at least)

In your sequence on the timeline, select all (command A) and copy. Create a new sequence, open it on the timeline and paste. The new one should behave better and once you have verified you copied everything over, you can loose the original sequence and SAVE!!

Hope this helps,
Ed