Rolf Howarth
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You can use the Timezone Adjustment command. The “Record Date” column is taken to be the time set on the camera, generally local time without any timezone information. If timezone correction is set then the the Location Date and GMT Date fields will display the corrected time, ie. Record Date + Timezone Adjustment. You can also specify a camera date correction at the same time.
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Ah sorry, you’re using the Workgroup server aren’t you? The always connect to server option is primarily designed for use with the Enterprise server (so you always get the latest settings from the server) and currently doesn’t seem to work properly with the Workgroup server. We’ll fix that in the next update but for now just leave it unchecked if you’re using the Workgroup edition.
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Common issues that can prevent previews being built or movies being exported include:
– destination folder name being longer than 31 characters or containing accented characters
– destination file name being longer than 31 characters or containing accented characters
– not having write permission in the destination folder
– destination file being more than 2GB
– missing codecs -
PS. I believe it’s called the EOS 550D in Europe, same thing as the Rebel T2i but completely different name. Since neither name exactly rolls off the tongue you have to wonder why they bother!
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The “always connect to server” option is designed so network administrators can ensure that users only use CatDV when connected to the server, and loading the latest settings from the server etc. If you cancel the connection to the server CatDV will therefore quit – that option means you MUST connect to the server to use use it.
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I’m not sure off hand what would cause that. I take it your home directory is a normal local drive, not a network home directory?
If you get strange errors, please mail the CatDV Error Log to support@squarebox.co.uk so we can investigate (as the log file often contains a lot more detail than the message that appears on screen).
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The THM file is a JPEG image containing Exif metadata so all the usual data (aperture, exposure, focal length, date and time, flash, camera serial number etc.) that you find in an Exif still should be loaded if there’s a THM file with the same name as the AVI or MOV movie.
Take a look at the Metadata (Media) field in the Other tab. If the metadata seems to be missing, send us a copy of the CatDV Error Log from the import so we can investigate. You do need the “Look for metadata in XML files” option checked (that option is slightly misnamed, it means from XML or other sidecar files).
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No, I’m talking about CatDV 8.1.5, not the worker.
In general you’re right and both CatDV and the Worker use exactly the same “engine”, though they’re driven in quite different ways and so there will be features in one that aren’t in the other. The worker is automated and so commands are parametrised, whereas CatDV is user-driven. Many features in CatDV depend on the user manually selecting a range of clips and applying a command to them based on user input and so aren’t relevant to the worker, for example.
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Adding a contiguous timecode to multiple clips will be included in 4.1.5. Extending Bulk Edit so you can modify fields in certain ways (truncating them to a particular length, trimming everything after a particular character etc.) will possibly come too but not until a future version. You should already be able to do a lot of operations like that using Search and Replace with a regex, though I realise complex regular expressions aren’t necessarily everyone’s cup of tea!
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I can’t reproduce that but what you describe, it’s possible that CatDV is keeping the file open (it certainly would be open if the clip is selected and a movie player is open, but it might also keep it open a little while after that also) and maybe that is confusing QuickTime Player. It sounds like an issue in QuickTime Player if it’s corrupting the file however.