Matthew Stamos
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This is basically what we have a few Avid shops doing with CatDV and it seems to be pretty solid. Email me off list and I will see about getting you some Avid bits that are in beta to take for a test drive.
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Yeah we have come across them from time to time but the lack of info and user experience makes doing a competitive analysis nearly impossible. That said are you able to test their product in your environment? One of the most powerful things about CatDV is that you can test it in the real world without too much trouble. If you have not gotten a trial license of CatDV yet email me and we can get you a code to test.
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Hey Jeff can you send screen shots and logs and this description to support@squarebox.com
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I bet it still works!
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Robb your post reminds me of something a customer said to me recently… “I have been screwed by Apple, Adobe and Avid at some point over the years so I will just own all three and use which ever one I feel like that day”
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[Rolf Howarth] “Take a look also at https://www.squarebox.com/faq167.html. In particular look at the Media Path field in the web client, then make sure that there’s a corresponding proxy path entry in your server config, and finally click on the blue CatDV logo to make sure there’s no permission problem or similar preventing the web server seeing the proxies.”
I send out this FAQ almost daily it’s a must read for anyone using the Web Clients. A little hidden feature of CatDV 10 is you can stream proxies as described in the FAQ into CatDV Pro as well.
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Good point Caspian, the new Premiere plugin is very cool with the ability to search CatDV from within Premiere 6. I would say if you are a CatDV user and planning on switching from FCP7 Premiere has to be a consideration.
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Interplay all dialed in is impressive no doubt about it. Reality for us video folks is no MAM, DAM, PAM out there that I am aware of can integrate with Media Composer and all the other groovy Avid tools as seamlessly as Interplay. On that note I don’t think Interplay is even an apples to apples comparison with CatDV. Example being with a budget for Interplay I would still have some CatDV in the mix. A server with a few few Worker Nodes in the workflow or at least a desktop seat or two lying around. CatDV is like a swiss army knife in a file based workflow.
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The funny thing about Avid from where I sit is the best thing and the worst thing about Avid is the same thing, their closed software architecture. If your all Avid through and through the workflows are really impressive but the minute you toss a third party in the mix all bets are off…..
That said I have a customer that has a cool workflow with Avid that I think may help you picture this? They have two sets of Hi res footage and online and offline DNx. They have a single proxy mp4 I believe and depending on what storage you have mounted you get the appropriate hi res footage. In their case most everyone gets the offline 36 to 1 and the finishing folks get the full DNxHD and some folks only get the proxies.
The challenge in you situation is the re-linking on the Avid side with the AMA. This is still not a really great workflow until Avid can more easily bulk re-link media.
I would really like to hear what others are doing as this is not that easy! That said there is some cool Avid stuff coming soon to CatDV so stay tuned.
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Chuck shoot me some screen grabs and the logs from the server and we will help get to the bottom of this challenge!
