[Rolf Howarth]

Ok, it looks like the forum has stripped out my backslash characters! It obviously uses \\ itself as an escape character. That should have read

^.*/test[^/]*\\.mov$

-Rolf

[Rolf Howarth]

The FULL regular expression, given that I assume you only want to match files that start with “test”, not for that text appearing somewhere else in the file path, would be

^.*/test[^/]*.mov$

What the characters mean is:

^ = match start of string
.* = any number of any characters (. = any character, * = repeat previous match any number of times)
/test = literal “test” right after a file path separator (assuming you’re on Mac OS)
[^/]* = any number of non-/ characters, as you want to ensure that “test” occurred in the final filename component of the path
. = matches a period “.” ( means “escape” the next character and ignore its usual special meaning)
mov = literal “mov”
$ = match end of string

This expression is “anchored” to the start and end of the string and gives you maximum control, but it’s quite complex. As a shortcut, the worker will also recognise common Mac and Windows command line abbreviations, so you should also be able to write

test*.mov

to do what you want.

[Rolf Howarth]

That’s interesting, I don’t think I’ve seen that before but what you describe certainly sounds possible, but something we should be able to fix if necessary. Could you send a CatDV Worker Log that shows the error to support@squarebox.co.uk so we can investigate further please?

What kind of file are you processing? Is it a reference movie with content it has to load over the network or is it particularly long? I’m curious why it takes a while to load – just opening up an mp3 should be near instantaneous normally.

[Rolf Howarth]

You can define drop downs (as many as you want) to tag clips with keywords. Look at the User Defined Fields and Pick Lists sections of Preferences for this. This metadata applies to the level of complete clips (or subclips).

If you want to tag specific frames within a clip without creating subclips then creating event markers or using the Verbatim Logger are the way to go.

[Rolf Howarth]

If you add things like app and pkg to the list of excluded extensions that will prevent CatDV descending into those packages.

[Rolf Howarth]

Unfortunately direct AVCHD (and HDV) playback is a bit problematic but I’m surprised it’s not really working for you at all with Xuggle. What processor and operating system are you using? I’m not sure there are any settings that would affect frozen playback but if you still have problems please contact support@squarebox.co.uk with a copy of your CatDV Error Log so we can investigate in case that reveals anything.

[Rolf Howarth]

If you have the RED codecs installed you should be able to import the .mov reference movies and have them play in CatDV. You may need to check the “resolve data references” option under Advanced Media Handling prefs.

[Rolf Howarth]

I think it will accept a list in most formats (with or without a period etc.) but it then converts them all to its preferred format with spaces and no puncuation, eg.

plist strings icons nib

[Rolf Howarth]

Ah apologies, you’re quite right. We’re not correctly flagging multi-hierarchy fields as being “multi” in the web client. We’ll hopefully fix that in the next update.

[Rolf Howarth]

Currently the smart folders don’t fully take into account the group they belong to but we’ve made a note to look into this and try to improve things.