Rolf Howarth
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You’re definitely setting the Source Media field to a value different from what it currently is, and have the preferences option “Enable commands to Delete and Move Media Files” selected? If so it should ask you whether to rename the file.
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What is it doing? It should pop up a dialog asking if you want to rename the file.
There may be more than one field called Name. Hover the mouse over it to make sure you pick up the clip name field.
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Try using Bulk Edit to copy the clip Name field to the Source Media field.
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Is this on Mac or Windows? And do you have the details panel open on the Movie tab at the time? QuickTime on Windows locks the file while a movie is open which prevents operations such as move or rename from working. Try checking the “Avoid preloading movies” option under the File System preferences tab and staying on the Thumbnail tab to see if that helps. It might also be a straightforward permissions problem. Try renaming the file in the Finder or Explorer and see if that works.
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Oddly enough, we recently noticed a similar issue where FCPX would get confused if you tried to include 23.976 footage in a 25 fps sequence. Can you provide more details on how you created the initial sequence, was this within FCPX? What sequence settings did you use?
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Ah, it depends on which bit of the “multi hierarchy” fields is the important bit for you!
6.6b7 implements the “multi” part but not the “hierarchy” part (ie. the field can have multiple values but currently they are displayed as “Cars/Audi; Cars/BMW” rather than shortened to “Audi; BMW”)
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You mean actually copy the media files? No, you’d have to copy them manually and then update media location.
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Unfortunately as it stands the “Create HTML Index” function in the worker isn’t very useful. It exports all the current clips for whatever task it’s working on at the time, but as it works on them one clip at a time you only get one clip per HTML index, as you’ve found. There are some situations where you’d get multiple clips, eg. when importing a movie and doing automatic scene detection, but on the whole it’s not very useful I’m afraid. We should perhaps remove this altogether, or add further options to make it work properly (eg. an option to append to an existing index, to choose which columns are displayed, to tie it to a specifc server catalog or query, and so on).
Apologies for the inconvenience. I’ve added this to our feature request list. In the meantime your options are probably to use Live HTML Publisher or the Web Client, export an HTML catalog manually from time to time, or finding someone with some css and xml skills who fancies doing some scriping with the worker command line interface, eg.
catdv -catalog “My Catalog.cdv” -print Name,Bin,Tape,In,Out,U1,U3 -format xml
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Ok. That’s probably the expected behaviour from CatDV’s point of view. It won’t create new media objects unless it has to. If it has a source media object that describes the whole tape it will refer to that in the sequence, not create a new one for each clip in the sequence. After all, if you already had the whole tape on disk at full res you’d want to use that, you wouldn’t want to be forced to redigitize.
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You could try toggling the “Export clips as whole clip/selection” option in Preferences.
I’m must admint I’m not 100% clear what problem you’re describing. You’re importing a file into CatDV, so you get a master clip representing the whole file (eg. 20 mins duration), then you’re marking in and out points and creating a subclip (eg. 5 seconds duration), then you’re creating a sequence and adding that subclip to it, then you’re exporting the sequence to FCP and suddenly the sequence is 20 mins long instead of 5 seconds (assuming you added just one clip)? Please send some screenshots and a copy of the XML file to support@squarebox.co.uk if that will help to explain things.