Hi,
I work in a small government archive and we are evaluating cat dv adquisition. We have some experience adding metadata to still images using IPTC. The issue is that not all applications may read metadata the same way. It could happen for example that what you write under “author” can move to “origin” in another app. We use AdobeBridge to index and a little free app to search called Kallimages.
According to different informations, as you say Adobe and Panasonic informs so, metadata can be inside video file container (avi, mov, etc) and catDV makes an sql data base using that data. Maybe the trial version of catDv does not allow to do so.
As we are thinking of using it, I would appreciate that you can tell me how you solved this issue.
Thanks,
Laura