Rolf Howarth
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If you have the CatDV Worker Node you can use the catdv command line tool with the -distinct or -summarise options to display all the values of your CLIENT field, together with the number of assets belonging to each client.
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Yes, unfortunately Data Rate is a good example of a “calculated field”. The database stores the file size and the clip duration so the data rate is calculated for display on the client but isn’t directly stored in the database, so isn’t available for searches.
Certain hacks like writing a worker script to copy the data rate to a particular user field and then searching that might be possible but are unlikely to be perfect I’m afraid.
-Rolf
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That sounds a bit odd. If you’re running a file-triggered task then it’s possible that not all the fields you might like might not be set early enough for a particular purpose (if they depend on the file having been analysed which might not have happened yet, for example), but for server-triggered tasks all the clip fields should be available from the outset as the clip already exists on the server.
Something that can be a big help if you’re using worker 6.1 is to use the Dump Variables processing step to see exactly what variables are available at the time. The other thing you should do if you still have problems is to quit and restart the worker and test it with just a single task that shows the problem, so the file isn’t too large, then mail the worker log to support@squarebox.com so we can investigate the issue for you.
-Rolf
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CatDV 10.1.3 should still run in Mavericks (OS X 10.9) but won’t work in Yosemite (OS X 10.10) because Apple removed some of the libraries that old versions of CatDV use. Worker Node 5 has the same requirements by the way, and will also not work in Yosemite.
Instead, for use on Yosmite you need CatDV 11 (and Worker 6) which use a completely different new architecture and run as 64-bit processes, with a separate native helper process to provide media processing capabilities.
-Rolf
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There may be some confusion over how the feature is intended to work. If you configure a pick list field to be Extensible that means you can type in new values which aren’t in the list, and they stay in the list while that window is open, but they aren’t remembered. If you tick the Remember Values option then they are added to the list in your preferences, but they’re only actually remembered if you save your preferences. Preferences are automatically saved locally but they are only saved to the server (as production group settings) if you go into the Preferences dialog and click the Save To Server button (or right click on a production group in the tree and save settings there). Normally only an administrator would have the ability to save production group settings to the server. Values you add to a pick lists won’t automatically be saved to the field definitions on the server unless you either go into the pick list values dialog and click the ‘+’ button or save production group settings to the server.
There is a shortcut you can use to make this easier however. Rather than having to go into Preferences and navigate to the pick list values section of prefs, if you double click on the label of any field in your details tab panels (ie. on the field name followed by a colon) this will open up a chooser or inspector for that field. In the case of pick lists there is an Edit Values button that will take you straight to the right place in just two clicks.
When you say the behaviour has changed, you might be thinking of the “Auto-populate from server” option for pick lists that you can set on the Server tab of Preferences. This scans the values actually used for clips saved to the database and makes them available in the drop down but it’s unwieldy and inflexible and can be very slow on large installations, so it’s not recommended for most people and now defaults to being off.
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Hi Shane,
You’re right, you should be able to tell it not to restore the playhead position. The intention was that the “remember movies that have been opened” option in Media Playback preferences should control that but it doesn’t seem to be working correctly. We’ll fix that in 11.0.3, due out in the next couple of weeks.
-Rolf
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You don’t need to use the beta any more… CatDV 11 was officially released at IBC this month and you can download it from https://www.squarebox.com/download-links/
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Harvesting metadata from the file path is something you can do easily when importing files with the Worker Node. (For example, a lot of customers might use a naming convention like XYZ_0103_002.mov to mean season 1, episode 3, scene 2 of show XYZ, and you can pull things like that out into separate fields using a regular expression.)
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Yes, CatDV 11 still supports exporting QT reference movies and flattened movies with your timecode using the Export As Movie command. It doesn’t currently support the Add Timecode Track command to replace the timecode on existing movies but we could re-introduce that if there’s demand for this (or you can use the optional legacy 32-bit version of CatDV 11). I’d suggest you download CatDV 11 though and request a demo license so you can try it out for yourself and let us know if there are any features you rely on which are missing. We have a new modular native player architecture that supports QuickTime as well as other new playback engines and you should find it to be much more capable than the old version.
-Rolf
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Hi Eli,
Are you working with the CatDV server, or standalone .cdv catalog files? If you’re using standalone catalog files and the volume that the catalog is on goes offline you may get an autosave error. You shouldn’t lose any data though. Do File > Local Catalogs > Save As Catalog and choose another location for your catalog.
If you get strange errors, please mail the CatDV Error Log (accessible from the Help menu) to support@squarebox.com so we can investigate.
-Rolf