[Shane French]

The videos are h.264.

Our audio engineer has a Soundminer client, which goes into an 8-channel board (he’s in the phone screening room). The output of this board then comes up on pots on the main studio board, so there is control of sfx volume in main control studio as well.

Video is done solely in main control room. Currently we use Premiere for playback which is setup to play in Premiere application and fullscreen on monitor 3 of a multi-monitor setup. Monitor 3 is mirrored to monitor 4 (which is really just an output sent back to video master control, TriCaster, as an input). So anything that appears on monitor 3/4 is an always-on source for TriCaster. So if you want to have anything on the computer such as website, fullscreen video, whatever sent to PGM1 you can. This allows us to start/stop/scrub video at will so we can comment as we go along.

If we wanted, we could duplicate this setup on sfx engineer’s computer so he could play video to program feed as well.

So in other words, we would simply search for video then drag from CatDV to premiere for playback. For audio, we would play back directly from CatDV.

And for searching, we developed the trick of adding “qq” to metadata for frequently-used or favorite sounds. So instead of searching just “cow” which would return a ton of results, you could seatch “cow qq” which would display ones you like.

[Shane French]

Yes, now that I think about it – I suppose the desktop client would then have to OPEN said catalog, correct? Would be a bummer for sure.