Rolf Howarth
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You could import the FCP project into CatDV which would copy over the bins as well, but it sounds like you’ve independently logged the same clips in two places (log notes in CatDV, bins in Final Cut) so you need to merge the two sets of data. There may be clever ways of doing this but if it’s only a handful of different bins the easiest is probably to re-bin the clips in CatDV (open the two windows side by side, select all the clips for one bin and use bulk edit or switch to grouping mode and drag them on to the bin you want, or the New… button).
(If you use grouping mode, beware of the known problem in 10.0.1 where toggling grouping mode will give a java error. There’s a simple workaround though, once the error occurs do View > New View, then close the old window.)
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You can choose to use either the standard native file chooser, relevant to each platform, or CatDV’s own cross-platform “Slate” file chooser, designed to match the appearance of the rest of the application. If you have problems with the CatDV file chooser you can opt to use the native file chooser instead via the Advanced User Interface section of Preferences.
The java.util.ConcurrentModificationException when toggling the Grouping button described in your support email is a known problem in 10.0.1 that has been fixed for 10.0.2 (due to be released in the next week or so).
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You can also right click on a sequence in the tree navigator and choose View Source Clips. Does that give you the sort of thing you want?
CatDV doesn’t aim to provide full editing capabilties. Its support for subclips and sequences is primarily designed to allow it to represent the results of your labours if you’ve logged clips in an NLE, so you can search for and use those subclips again if you want.
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Interesting, you’re correct and this seems to have stopped working. We’ll fix it in CatDV 10.0.2, due in the next week or so. But Bryson and Matt are correct that directly browsing a folder’s contents like that isn’t a very commonly used feature, which I guess is why this was missed.
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Contact us at support@squarebox.com and we’ll sort out a SQL script that deletes the catalogs for you if you like.
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If you arrange it right, 23000 clips is still just one copy and paste operation 🙂
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Currently the “Try to link to Avid files” option works for file-based media only, not tape-based. I’ll try to find out how easy it would be to extend this to tape-based media as well.
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Are you using the CatDV Server as a license server?
Either way, this sounds a bit odd. Please email support@squarebox.com with full details (eg. screenshots of your registration panel before and after the server menus disappear) and we’ll investigate.
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Do you have several clips referring to the same file (eg. subclips)? Perhaps you’re not selecting all the clips that refer to the copied file, or maybe it’s only updating the media path of the first one?
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No, there’s no bulk delete of catalogs, probably for good reason 🙂 How many are you talking about? A dozen or so? If so it should be fairly quick to do them manually. If you’re talking about many hundreds then we can help you how to do that via the database if necessary, though there are obvious risk in terms of accidentally deleting data you don’t want to.