Rolf Howarth
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If you configure a user-defined field as a “multi-grouping” field then it can contain multiple keywords as separate items. When you view one of these fields in a single row the list of values is shown separated by a semicolon but internally it’s actually stored as a newline separator.
Normally you don’t need to know that and just use the CatDV user interface to add or remove keywords to a clip as required. If you need to “patch up the data” because it was entered incorrectly (and you don’t want to fix each one manually!) you can do so using Tools > Search And Replace. Choose the field you want to edit, enter the old delimiter eg. “, ” under Search For, and enter “\n” under Replace With. Don’t enter the quotes but do enter a space after the comma if that’s how the list is currently delimited. Check the “Use regular expressions”, then press OK.
The ability to enter \n as the replacement was only added a couple of months ago so make sure you’re using a recent version of CatDV (the current version is 8.1.2, see https://www.squarebox.co.uk/download1.html).
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We’ve had very occasional reports of this problem. From the log files we’ve seen it looks like an intermittent bug in QuickTime (it probably depends on some random factor like where in memory a particular buffer is placed). The best advice therefore is to try the command again if you get that error, and maybe to quit and restart CatDV if it still occurs.
Sorry we don’t have a more definitive answer at this time.
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“What doesn’t work is the following: Select the ‘Logging’ Tab. Via preferences add the ‘Event Marker’ field. Now try to delete a single marker by selecting it from the list. Won’t work. You can only delete all at once.
Easiest way to solve this would be to add a menu item ‘Delete current marker’ and make it separate from the existing one which then only deletes all at once and could be called ‘Delete all marker'”The “Clear Marker(s)” command will delete a single marker, if that’s what you have selected, or delete all the markers if nothing is selected.
I suspect what’s happening in your case is that it’s getting confused over which markers you have selected. When you added a marker table to the Logging tab did you also remove it from the Summary tab? If not, it’s probably using what you have selected on the Summary tab to decide which markers to delete.
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You’re right, it should probably remember the filter you were on. I suspect it behaves the way it does to ensure that the newly added subclips are visible in the main window, but of course in this case the tape will be the same.
By the way, you can use the ‘split clip’ (scissors icon) and ‘merge into previous’ commands to correct automatic scene detection errors if that’s easier.
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Hi Carsten,
Welcome to CatDV!1. You can’t currently turn off audio tracks/channels in verbatim logger, but I agree, that would be useful. We’ll see if we can add that in a future update.
2. Odd, I can’t reproduce that. How are you deleting the marker? You can select a marker (via the summary tab, or another tab) and then press Del (Fn-Backspace) or Logging > Clear Markers. You can edit a marker by double clicking it in the details table or pressing Shift-M when focus is on the movie (though we changed that recently, it might not yet be in the public release).
3. Hmm, it should remember your viewer size, the same way it remembers the size of the tree. We’ll investigate why that isn’t sticking.
4. Yes, no problem to increase the memory, though 640MB should be plenty in most situations. Didn’t Bill Gates famously say no-one would ever need more than 640KB? 🙂
-Rolf
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I just got a bunch of intermittent -47 (file busy) errors when exporting a movie from QuickTime Player. In this case I think the error description was actually correct: file busy. Make sure you’re not viewing the destination folder in a Finder window (or any other application) while you do a conversion or that will lock the file and cause the conversion to fail.
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That’s a demo limitation I think, though I must admit I’m not sure why that’s there. We’ll send you an evaluation license that you can use off list.
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The verbatim logger is designed not to save duplicate versions of the same data that could get out of step with each other. For example, what should happen if you Apply the log to create markers, then make changes to one or the other, then go in to verbatim logger and apply them again?
As Kevin said, you can go back into Verbatim Logger and Copy Text if you want just the text, then paste that into another field if you really want to.
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There are a few strange problems with certain file paths in QuickTime. The -47 error can occur if the destination parent folder has a name longer than 31 characters, or if the file path contains accented characters, neither of which seem to apply in your case, so it’s not totally clear what’s going on, but I would suggest trying to simplify the path if you can.
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The server does still have the concept of catalog as one way of organising clips, but it’s just one way. You can search and browse the server using any of CatDV’s fields, across the whole database regardless of which catalog it’s in.
Just like every file you have on your hard drive must be in a directory somewhere, even if you always use a database like Spotlight to access them, every clip on the CatDV server must be in a catalog.