[Stuart Peck]

No problem Pierre

Glad you got it sorted

Stuart Peck
Media consultant

https://stuartpeckphotography.com
https://www.sickmac.co.uk

[Stuart Peck]

There are several missing IPTC fields, and what you do see won’t all be as you’d expect to see IPTC data. Their names will be prefixed with IPTC4

Sublocation is a metadata field, source is missing and keywords are not IPTC but also do not show in the default view.

In your tabs, create a new tab called IPTC and when choosing your fields in which to add, hit the I key when a field is selected. Scroll down to see the IPTC fields available. Add them to your tab and save.

These are the present IPTC4 fields in CDV. You’ll have to edit them in order to have them display something meaningful.

This will only work for embedded files, i.e. if you work with sidecar XMP (RAW Workflow) these files will appear as a separate file in CDV and will not relate to its image file. Hence, would recommend using Lightroom, Photo mechanic, Bridge, Capture one etc

Stuart Peck
Media consultant

https://stuartpeckphotography.com
https://www.sickmac.co.uk

[Stuart Peck]

HI Mike, Use Edit > Paste thumbnails

Choose the poster frame you want to use and set it under the thumbnails tab, you’ll see a wee camera icon next to the right arrow.

Go to your edit menu and copy the poster frame, or Cmd C on a Mac. Then select the required clips you wish to paste the new poster frame to, and go up to the edit menu once again and choose paste thumbnails.

et voilá

(Assuming you mean, paste the same poster frame to all clips)

Stuart

Sqareboxmedia
CatDV / MME / Focalpoint /

[Stuart Peck]

Hey Eric,

Thanks for the email to our, I shall take this over and reply to you via the support email. As Bryson say, browsers can be and are a pain. I generally do testing for browser every month at least as there is always a firefox update or another update that potentially bring it to it’s knees. Since version 7 of firefox, CatDV hasn’t worked as well as previous versions of Firefox, i tend to use either Chrome with HTML 5 or Safari on HTML 5 or Quicktime depending what i’m testing. As for limited codec support for Chrome…However, H.264 and MP$ are fine, What else are we gonna use for a proxy 🙂

I then tend to veer people away from firefox when supporting browsers for CatDV, i’ve never had consistant results with firefox so I won’t recommend that for a solution.

Safari 5.2.1 and Chrome versions 17.0 and 18.0 are working great for me with proxy currently.

As far as your specific issue lets chat over email and we can get to the bottom of the issue. I’m sure you have been trying to diagnose this but I will ask you to go back to point 0, as far as making sure we have all the right components we need and that media is playing independently of CatDV (ie QT) We can then diagnose it correctly. Most of the time, proxy not playing is down to path and or you have changed it and CatDV server needs a restart. EIther that or there is a codec issue somewhere along the line.

Chat soon over email

Regards

Stuart

Sqareboxmedia
CatDV / MME / Focalpoint /

[Stuart Peck]

Hi John, welcome to the cow!

By setting your in point and your outpoint, holding cmd and hitting U, as in FCP you will create a subclip. This creates a new clip in CatDV, so therefore you could feasibly loose your original clip with all the ‘gash’.

That subclip will still reference the original file path as the the orignal file did, but less the unwanted footage. This will obviously mean that the size of your archive will remain the same but less unwanted footage in your viewer.

If you’re talking about trying to loose some Gb’s, you will then have to transcode, re adding to CatDV

Also, you might want to check that you’re not exporting a reference QT when exporting from CatDV, a hi res flattered movie will be more that Kb’s in size.

Regards
Stuart

[Stuart Peck]

I’d recommend updating your CatDV to 9.0.4 and then give it another try

[Stuart Peck]

Yeah sure, “connected” is a loose word when talking about workflow, and depending if you’re working with online, offline, logging etc- the list is endless. But in order to view content with CatDV, you need to be connected to something that holds either a proxy file, the hi res or if you can and it needs it, both.

[Stuart Peck]

Hi Melanie

I think we touched on this when we spoke last but yeah.. Basically speaking you need your machine clients attached to storage where your Hi Res and Proxy reside. This doesn’t have to be the same machine that your CatDv Server resides on but as long as you are on the same LAN.

Your permissions for, for instance Group A and Group B can all be set within CatDV, thus giving catalog and group access to some and not others.

SAN directories can be shown or hidden to the relevant users

Thanks