Rolf Howarth
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You need the CatDV MXF Option to enable the MXF and P2 Importers. With the MXF option CatDV will read MXF and XML camera metadata and automatically match up the video and audio tracks of P2 clips so you can play them as a single clip. You can also edit and export the P2 metadata in CatDV.
Unfortunately, right now the MXF Option is only available at the time of purchase of a networked installation, it’s not available via the web site or as an upgrade on its own. We hope to change that soon, but if you need further information in the meantime please drop a line to sales@squarebox.co.uk
You’ll also need a suitable MXF codec from MXF4Mac or Calibrated to be able to play the clips or build previews from within CatDV.
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Different people like to log their video in different ways, so there’s are lots of ways of describing clips and associating text with timecode in CatDV, depending on what you’re trying to do:
- you can have multiline, free format text in the Notes field. If you use the Verbatim Logger and ‘save as text’ then you can use this to store a transcript against a clip (including timecode stored within the text)
- you can create subclips and give each one a new name. You can use the verbatim logger for this (using a hot key to insert ‘new subclip’ markers while the video is playing) or do it by setting in and out points and using the New Subclip command.
- you can create timecode event markers within a clip. These appear within the movie controller and work like chapter markers, and are also listed in the Event Markers table.
You can convert between these forms fairly easily, and also use features such as automatic scene detection or import and export the log notes to your editing app.
To view the log notes alongside the movie while it’s playing, use the Clip Details panel. This is normally docked to the main window but you can also have it as a separate window. Display the movie on the left and choose (or configure) a tab on the right that shows the Notes or Event Markers table as required.
-Rolf
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Sorry, we’re not always very good at keeping the update check up to date! We plan to automate that but in the meantime, checking the download page https://www.squarebox.co.uk/download1.html is the best way of making sure you have the latest version.
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Perhaps you edited the Record Date field but it’s in the wrong format? You can edit the date but you have to use the same format as you’ve configured for display.
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It means you have 60 fps timecode and you’re on an odd frame or field. The timecode will increment as follows as you step through the movie:
0:00:00;00 0:00:00;00* 0:00:00;01 … 0:00:00;29 0:00:00;29* 0:00:01;00