Rolf Howarth
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Ah. That’s interesting, there seems to be a problem with the way file paths containing Unicode characters are encoded in a Final Cut XML file so the files aren’t coming over to CatDV properly. We’ll need to investigate to see if we can fix that at our end but for now your best solution is probably to import the files directly into CatDV, batch rename them there, then send them to Final Cut, if you can do that.
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The file extension field refers to the original import source, ie. the XML file you imported the clips from in your case, not the source media file, so you don’t need to worry about that.
For renaming by setting the clip Name to work it has to exactly match the current filename, including extensions, accents, etc. This is kind of a roundabout mechanism however, so in future we’ll let you directly edit the media filename.
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You’re right, it doesn’t seem to search Tape and probably should, so we’ll try to add that in the next update. (Currently it searches clip Name, Bin, Notes and all the user-defined fields).
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Ok. For changes to the Name field to rename the file the clip name has to exactly match the current filename. If you already renamed either one or the other then the renaming won’t work. It’s also possible there might be some weird Unicode character thing going on I guess.
In the next version of CatDV we plan to make this a bit easier and let you directly edit the Source Media filename to rename the file, rather than having to do it via the clip name field. In the meantime, if you still have problems please send an email to support@squarebox.co.uk and we’ll try to sort you out. We might ask you to mail us the catalog file and/or the CatDV error log file so we can work out what’s going on.
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Yes, you can bulk rename files. Make sure you’re setting the clip Name field (NM1) as the destination (enable “Show attribute IDs” in advanced user interface preferences if you have several fields with the same name) and also that you have the “Auto rename files when setting Name or Bin” option checked.
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The destination of a bulk edit can’t be a read only field, but you should be able to use any field as the source of bulk edit when you’re copying data from one field to another.
There are some changes coming up that will make it easier to identify which field you’re using if you have different fields with the same name (eg. built-in fields, user-defined fields, etc.)
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You should be able to do what you want with the Bulk Edit tool. First you could copy the Name field from all your clips to another field such as Notes (if you want to keep the descriptive name as a comment). Then you can check the “Auto rename files when setting Name or Bin” in Advanced User Interface preferences and do a Bulk Edit of the Name field, setting the name to something like “Clip 001.mov” with the “auto-increment following pattern” option checked. That should rename all your files to Clip 001.mov, Clip 002.mov etc.
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We don’t currently have specific support for XMP. There’s limited support, in that it will sometimes tag a clip with the entire XML text, but we don’t yet pull out the individual fields and display them sensibly. This should hopefully come quite soon though.
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I’m not sure why upgrading to Snow Leopard server doesn’t work for you. Please send an email to support@squarebox.co.uk with exact details of any errors you’re seeing so we can investigate.
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Ok, your comments on keeping it simple have been noted. Balancing complexity against flexibility is something we do take very seriously.
By the way, the next update of CatDV will fix Bulk Edit’s auto-increment feature so that it increments the last number in the pattern, not the first one, so 2009-001 increments to 2009-002 and not 2010-001, as that’s likely to be the desired behaviour in most situations.
I don’t really have any comments on the time to do flattening as we just use the standard QuickTime APIs for this functionality so it’s really down to Apple’s implementation.