Rolf Howarth
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There’s a difference between media files on disk and clip records in your database. If you cut or clear clips from the Edit menu (and then publish changes to the database) that just deletes the clip records.
Emptying the recycle bin permanently deletes clips on the server that you have previously deleted there. Deleting media files is only done if you use commands from the Media menu.
If you still have problems please email support@squarebox.com with full details including screen shots and details of which version you’re running etc.
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If you’re running CatDV Server then your footage is already all in one database. Catalogs are just a convenient way of organising them within that, the same way as you might arrange them in “projects” or “folders”, but you can search and browse all your footage across catalogs regardless of which catalog they’re in.
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Do you have CatDV Server or are you using CatDV standalone? If you’re using CatDV Server you can just publish all your catalogs to the server and search across clips etc. If you’re using CatDV standalone then you can copy and paste clips from one catalog to another if you want to, though usually it’s best to have different catalogs for different projects etc.
Think of catalogs as being (very roughly) equivalent to projects in your NLE, or folders on your hard drive. Just as you wouldn’t put ALL your media in one project or in one huge flat directory hierarchy it usually makes sense to have different catalogs for different purposes.
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The basic format of an import processing rules file is: pattern field-id value
The simplest type of pattern is just a single word that can occur in a filename. If you had a line like:
SAT U1 Something Awesome Today
then if you import a file called DDR11_CAM01_SAT_01282017.mov it would automatically set User 1 to “Something Awesome Today”. It looks for the pattern anywhere in the name though, so it would also be triggered by SAT_CAM01_XYZ_123456.mov, but not by SATURDAY_12345.mov as the pattern has to occur on its own not as part of a word, with space, comma, underscrore, minus, plus, and vertical bar (plus forward and back slash) recognised as delimiters between words in the filename.
If you want to do anything more complicated then you can apply a regex (regular expression) and apply a pattern include special wildcard characters to the entire file path (including directory tree not just the final filename) but that’s more fiddly to set up and the sort of thing you might want to get your systems integrator or our professional services team to help you with.
For example, /(.+)_(.+)_(.+)_(\d\d)(\d\d)(\d{4}).mov would set $1 to DDR11, $2 to CAM01, $3 to SAT, $4 to 01, $5 to 28 and $6 to 2017.
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Hi Lee,
If you have a small sample file that you think contains marker metadata please send it to support@squarebox.com and we’ll be happy to take a look.
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Send a message to support@squarebox.com, including the log file from the server control panel, so we can investigate.
-Rolf
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Try performing the same query that your bulk query action uses manually from within the CatDV application and see what clips it returns. Perhaps there are only 16 matching clips. You can also use the Test button in the worker (labelled with a “?”) to give a quick count of how many matching clips there are.
The main difference between a bulk query and a regular server query in the worker is that a regular query will queue a separate task for each matching clip and a bulk query will queue a single task to process all the clips, so use the former if you’re doing per file processing that might take some time for each clip (such as transcoding or copying to archive), and the latter if you’re doing simple operations like updating a clip field for all the matching clips.
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The autosave file is saved automatically in the background while you’re working on a catalog (every 10 minutes by default) to reduce the amount of work that is lost if the application (or your computer) crashes for any reason. It is deleted again once you save your catalog normally (ie. you should only have an .autosave file while you have unsaved changed opens in memory).
If you relaunch the application and it finds an .autosave file it will load that and tell you it recovered unsaved changes.
By contrast, the “Backup” file is saved when you save a catalog and contains the previous saved version.
Both of these are controlled by settings in the File System section of Preferences.
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Disk snapshots are intended for reasonably long term use but unfortunately there was a problem with the way old disk snapshots were saved prior to 11.1.2 that meant they couldn’t be compatible with later versions.
One idea we had but haven’t implemented yet is to let you compare an old snapshot with the current disk usage so you can see where the main changes are. It’s good to hear that people are using the feature though so we’ll keep things under review.
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That’s a path issue. Either edit your PATH environment variable or provide the full path, eg.
C:\Program Files\Square Box\CatDV Worker 6.1\catdv.exe -help
-Rolf