Rolf Howarth
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A bin in CatDV isn’t really an object in its own right, its a property of the clip. By default the Bin field will pick up the name of the enclosing media file folder but you can type a new value into the Bin field and hey presto, you’ll see a new bin in the tree. The tree uses smart folders and automatic grouping to automatically show all the distinct values of the Bin field over all the clips in your catalog. It all happens dynamically.
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It’s down to individual codecs whether they support multi-threading or not. Some do but not all.
CatDV currently only uses the 32-bit QuickTime APIs.
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That doesn’t sound right. Please email a screenshot of the Browse Catalogs window after doing the search and a copy of your CatDV Error Log (which you can access via Help > System Information) to support@squarebox.co.uk so we can investigate.
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You’d have to do something in two passes I suspect. Create proxies of your soure clips with burnt in timecode, then export the sequence as a movie based on proxies and adding a visible timecode track. Haven’t tried this but I’d expect it to work. You may need to use a bit of ingenuity if the two timecodes are in the same place, eg. export the sequence as a QT reference movie with visible timecode, then open the movie in QT Player Pro and move the timecode track. You can add an opaque grey background, not black I’m fraid.
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Hmm, that sounds odd, so I don’t know what would have happened there. You mean the application itself crashed? Make a copy of the CatDV Error Log and backup from Home > Library > Logs (if you’re on a Mac, or inside your local appdata folder on Windows). Also, please save a copy of the server log and send them all to support@squarebox.com. If you deleted clips on the server (for whatever reason) they should have been saved to the recycle bin. I’m sure the media files themselves won’t have been deleted.
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I think that’s it currently, see https://www.squarebox.com/partners.html for links
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There isn’t I’m afraid, other than printing them out one by one. We’ll make a note to look into adding an option for that however.
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Yes, names and relative paths must match (though filename extension needn’t, as discussed previously, plus as well as .mov and .mp4 you can have .jpg proxies for other non-movie types of file).
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Oh dear if you’ve already done it the hard way, but yes, you can do it quite easily using the Copy and Paste Metadata commands. If you have two lists of clips, with the same number of clips in each (and in the same order) you can select and copy the first list of clips and paste selected fields onto the next list.
(That’s how it works if you select two lists of clips of the same length. The other way of using that command is to select a single source clip as a kind of template and copy metadata from that onto onto all the destination clips.)
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Everyone knows what Apple are like with regard to not announcing forthcoming features until they’re ready. I’m sure they’re well aware of the need for additional support for advanced workflows, however, and will release new versions of FCP X to plug the “missing” features just as soon as they can. They said as much on their FAQ page.
My hunch is that we’ll see the first fruits of this sooner rather than later, more like IBC (this September) rather than having to wait until NAB (next April), so I don’t think there’s any need to move away from FCP just yet. Plus of course FCP 7 continues to work just fine in the interim.