[Rolf Howarth]

That trick should no longer be necessary. Early versions of 9.0 didn’t support PowerPC processors but I thought we fixed it so the current version should work. We don’t test it against ppc though, which is why there may be residual problems and the requirements say Intel processor is needed.

[Rolf Howarth]

I’ve added a link to https://www.squarebox.co.uk/tutorials.html

Yes, very cool Jon, thank you!

[Rolf Howarth]

If I had to guess I’d say that could be a drop vs nondrop timecode issue. The problem is that officially there is no such such thing as 23.98 drop frame timecode, but it might be that FCP is interpreting the frame count of the timecode as if it was drop frame, in which case would give a different result to CatDV. If so, are you sure that FCP is correct? Does the FCP figure correspond to what you know the timecode should be?

Could you forward an example file to support@squarebox.co.uk so we can investigate please?

[Rolf Howarth]

I’m sure more cores won’t hurt but you’re right, overall I suspect fast disks, fast RAM and a fast network are more important than raw CPU power.

[Rolf Howarth]

A hierarchy field can be either linked or multi but not both.

A linked hierarchy is where the choices in the drop down are limited based on what’s selected in another field, eg. a list of players depending on the team that’s selected.

A multi hierarchy can be used for a structured vocabulary of keywords, for example you might want to tag a clip of a dog playing with both Animals > Domestic > Dog and Leisure > Ball.

For people who are curious about the internals, eg. when writing worker scripts, this will be stored in the database as “Animals/Domestic/Dog\nLeisure/Ball” but displayed as “Dog; Ball”.

[Rolf Howarth]

Where are you writing the CatDV variables such as ${U1}? That syntax is only understood on the command line itself, it won’t work within the shell script.

Command 1: myscript.sh

Then a s shell script that contains the following WON’T work:
#!/bin/sh
echo User1 = ${U1}
…

Instead, you need to do
Command 1: myscript.sh ${U1}

#!/bin/sh
echo User1 = $1

[Rolf Howarth]

The fix has already been made and will be included in 9.0.3, whenever that’s released.

[Rolf Howarth]

You might be able to do something like

/bin/sh -c “command1; command2”

but I haven’t tried it. The best thing is probably to write a shell script that executes the two commands you want, passing your arguments to the shell script and then referring to them as $1, $2 etc. in the shell script.

[Rolf Howarth]

You definitely want HTML Formatted, not Current View, to flow a long Notes field. One of the options there is not to print any thumbnails.

-Rolf

[Rolf Howarth]

Define a custom view that contains the fields you want to see, eg. Name, Notes, Event Markers, then use File > Print > HTML Formatted and choose that view from the drop down.