Rolf Howarth
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If you go on to the server machine and click Perform Housekeeping it will empty clips more than 2 weeks old from the recycle bin. It will also do that when you shut down the server.
If you want to manually delete clips from the recycle bin sooner than that, use the CatDV client to open the recycle bin for editing (right click on the recycle bin under the Anonymous catalog group), then delete the clips and publish changes.
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Could you mail a copy of the CatDV Error Log (do Help > System Information to see the location if you’re not sure) to support@squarebox.co.uk after you get a crash so we can investigate? It could be a corrupt file, or maybe some other issue, but it’s difficult to know for sure without more information.
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You can copy the .cdv catalog files from one machine to another, and set up equivalent file paths (Preferences > Media Search Paths > Original Media) to enable CatDV to find the file if the path is different on the two machines. The best solution of course is to use the CatDV Server, as it’s designed specifically to support multi-user operation 🙂
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You can display the TimeScale. That’s a “metadata column”, which are generally read-only columns (though you can enable editing of them if you want to) that are read from media files when you import them. Just go to Preferences and enable metadata columns, then customise your view to include the “TimeScale” column.
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That could be a documentation error, or you could be getting confused with the Browse Database command which shows a list of catalogs on the server (if you’re using CatDV with the CatDV Server). But you’re right, you can just delete catalog files from the Finder.
By the way, we long since standardised on the American spelling of catalog because “cataloguing” just looks too weird!
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CatDV uses QuickTime for transcoding, so whether a particular codec is multi-threaded or not is down to Apple I’m afraid. Some are optimised while others are single threaded.
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Yes, you can configure a pick list to be “extensible” (allow user to type in new values) or not.
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You mean time of day timecode for DSLR movies? We already have a beta of the worker with that in. Didn’t I already send you a link? 🙂
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There’s no hard and fast catalog limit, it’s just that when you “open” a catalog CatDV loads all the clip metadata (log notes, keywords and thumbnails) into memory. The thumbnails especially are very memory intensive.
How are your files organised on disk? Just as you wouldn’t put hundreds of thousands of files in one enormous flat folder hierarchy (see how long it takes the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer to open up a window on that folder if you do!) you wouldn’t normally put all your clips in one catalog. Catalogs are just one way of organising your files in CatDV, however, and there is no problem having many catalogs, or searching seamlessly across all of them.
One suggestion would be to create a new catalog for each shoot, or each time you ingest a bunch of files. The name could even be something auto-generated like the current date and time (if you use the Worker Node it automates that part of the process). As long as all the clips are tagged with the continent and country where they’re shot (along with other information) you can easily browse by country even though the clips reside in many different catalogs.
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As Bryson says, you can easily paste a list of keywords into a picklist, and there’s no problem having 70,000 or more values in it. What’s currently missing is a way to select these hierarchically in the user inteface (that’s an outstanding feature request we may look at in a future version). You can select them by starting to type a few characters and having it autocomplete however.