Rolf Howarth
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You have to remember that CatDV doesn’t set out to be an editor or claim to fully support multi-track editing. The multi-track features are primarily there to support voice over tracks, and to represent multi-track sequences that you might have imported from elsewhere (eg. Final Cut, from an OMF or EDL file, etc.). You can create a basic sequence with one video track and multiple audio tracks but can’t sensibly do much with a sequence with multiple video tracks beause CatDV doesn’t support transitions or composition effects.
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There are advantages and disadvantages to storing metadata in the media file itself.
The advantage of storing metadata in the file is that metadata is stored in the file (so it won’t get lost or detached from its media).
The disadvantage of storing metadata in the file is that the metadata is stored in the file (so it’s no good if the file is offline and you need to know which backup tape to restore it from, or if it’s on a read only volume, or on a network volume and two people want to mark it up in different ways, or if you’re dealing with file types that don’t support embedded metadata, or if you have millions of assets and it’s not feasible to read all that data over a network just to find one file).
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Yes, it’s something we’d like to look at, but would need a bit of thought about when to handle the batch as a single job or as separate files.
In the meantime, I’ve already been in touch with Yannick about an alternative approach using the forthcoming CatDV command line interface.
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Apologies for the delay. If CatDV does nothing when you try to build a preview that could indicate a preview file with that name already exists so it thinks there’s nothing for it to do, even if the file is corrupt and needs to be rebuilt. Check using the Manage Preview Movies command (you may need to enable advanced menus in Preferences to see that command).
I assume there’s no obvious difference between this clip and the others that you were able to build previews for?
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Apologies for the long delay in responding but you should be able to do this using a regex filename exclusion pattern in the Conditions tab, something like
/restored/
to match for “restored” occurring anywhere in the path, or
.*/restored/[^/]*$
to exclude files only whose direct parent is “restored”.
Quick regex tutorial: [xyz] matches characters inside the square bracks, ^ negates the match, * means any number of occurrences, . matches any character, and $ matches the end of the text string. So, that pattern says match anything followed by “/restored/” followed by any characters excluding “/” up to the end of the path name.
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Sorry to come to this late but if you execute your command in the “command 2” part of your worker script and check the ‘parse output’ option then you can set the clip status (or any other field) programmatically based on what your command returns.
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We don’t have a solution for this at this time I’m afraid. Some Windows machines seem to be missing or have an incompatible driver of some kind but we haven’t tracked down the precise conditions under which the problem occurs yet. That’s one of the reasons why we’d always encourage people to try out the software first before making a purchase.
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Glad you’re getting up and running again. I don’t recognise the ClassNotFoundException stack trace you reported earlier, so it’s possible the control panel installation is broken in some way.
From the sound of it you reloaded all the catalogs onto the server from separate .cdv files? That would work, but for future reference the easiest way is to export a SQL dump of the data on one machine (easily done using the Export button in the control panel) and then load that on the new machine (which involves some command line jiggery pokery because it consists of wiping and recreating the database, but is described in the server release notes).
As for previews, the catalogs don’t contain the previews or directly link to the previews, so you don’t need to update the catalogs. Instead, you need to update the Media Search Paths in your CatDV preferences. To find a preview, CatDV looks at the Media Path stored against the clip (or the tape and timceode, if you’re using tape-based previews) then looks up the corresponding preview file using the path rules stored in preferences.
-Rolf
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You need to use a regex. Try the following:
.*\.(mpg|mpeg|m4v)$
You could also try searching for “mpeg” in the Video Format field, but it’s more efficient to match on the filename rather than opening the file as a movie.
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No sorry, since 8.1.7 I’m afraid it always displays that warning if you search for “any field” contains something, with no other query terms to narrow down the search. If you have a large database it can take a long time to do a query like that because it can’t use any indexes and has to trawl through every field of every clip. It could takes minutes rather than seconds, and is a very easy “mistake” to make, so if at all possible you’re encouraged to perform a more specific search instead. Is this a big problem?