Rolf Howarth
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Yes, you can customise the fields which are shown in the HTML details dialog by creating a customised view definition called “HTML Summary” and adding the fields you are interested to that view. Note that (for purely historical reasons) you need to create a customised view with that name, not a customised details panel layout, even though the latter would probably be more intuitive.
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Recent versions of the server have an issue where you can’t perform a query to bring back only part of the recycle bin. You can only open up the entire bin, which in the case of a very large number of deleted clips isn’t practical. The clips are there, you just can’t get to them without a bit of SQL magic! This will be fixed in a forthcoming update.
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You should be able to, though you may see some sort of warning messages (and are unlikely to be able to go the other way, so save a copy of the original catalogs before overwriting them using a later version of CatDV if you think you might need to go back).
Are you saying it doesn’t work? What happens if you try it?
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You can print the HTML Summary by doing Edit > Clip Summary and pressing the Print button.
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Re subtitling, there are two ways of storing the results of vebatim logger in CatDV, as a transcript in the Notes field or as event markers. Both of these go over to Final Cut, and within FCP you should be able to copy either the markers or Log Notes field, so use whichever is most convenient for you.
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As Bryson says, there are lots of different workflows possible with CatDV, so it all depends on what you’re trying to do and what makes sense for you, eg. how much logging/tagging/archiving you want to do before editing and how you want to select which shots to use.
One common workflow is to capture and log everything first. You can ingest using FCP and set a worker node watch folder on capture scratch to import files into CatDV and build low res proxies (OfflineRT or H264). You could publish these clips to an In Box catalog, and then monitor that catalog (using CatDV on another machine) to move them to another catalog, depending on who you’ve assigned to work on them, or based on the project. You can log and tag the clips within CatDV, making subclips or creating markers to highlight the portions you want to use or even creating basic cuts only sequences. If you have a mixed environment (FCP edit suites connected to a SAN and Windows PCs on producers’ desks on the office network) you can do your logging and shot selection on the desktop PCs using the low res proxies and then transfer the sequences back to FCP to relink them to the online media. Such an approach works well for documentaries, weekly TV shows, etc.
Alternatively, in a news environment where a faster turnaround may be needed, you can do your logging and shot selection in FCP as footage is ingested, then import your FCP projects into CatDV via XML afterwards so your assets become available for future programs. Use CatDV as a catalog of all your library footage, so the editor can easily search for and include library clips as required. Or go for a combination of both approaches and use CatDV to help with logging on the edit suites using tools such as the verbatim logger and automatic scene detection.
The answer is, it all depends on what you want to do, but CatDV can probably help you at every stage of the workflow 🙂
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CatDV already has naming schemes that will include leading zeros, the problem is they surround the name with parentheses (to indicate it’s an auto-generated name you might want to change to something more meaningful). What we really need is to introduce additional naming scheme options.
By the way, I would claim the problem lies with the FCP browser window not sorting things properly. CatDV knows that 9 comes before 10 🙂
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It’s in View > Customise Views, or Preferences > Customise Views (as opposed to Logging > Customise Details Panel, or Preferences > Customise Details Panel!)
I still can’t reproduce the ? instead of quotes issue, by the way, so if you can mail us an example to test with that would be a big help.
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The HTML Clip Summary normally uses a pre-defined, built-in field list. You can define your own fields however by creating a customised view called “HTML Summary” and it will use the fields from that instead.
Note that you need to create a customised main window view called HTML Summary, not a customised details panel layout. It doesn’t matter whether you make it a list, thumbnail or film strip view, it’s just the columns in that view that are used.
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When it regenerates the clip ID it should normally use the same ID (if the clip name, record date, and other fields haven’t changed since the first time) but you’re right, we should perhaps add an option to lock that field.
When you do an HTML export it only includes a single thumbnail I’m afraid.
I’m not sure why quotes would be being converted to question marks. What are you copying the text from? I just tried it from a Word document including both normal and smart quotes and they all came across ok. Perhaps you could email a small example log file as an attachment to support@squarebox.co.uk for us to test.