CatDV 2.x Features

New features in 2.5

• New Live Capture command to scan a tape and build previews at the same time (with compatible hardware only)
• Added online help.
• New Bulk Edit command
• New Browse Catalogs command
• More flexible view configuration: ability to display small clip status icon within thumbnail; new 'text below thumbnail' view type; ability to configure widths of columns as well as their order.
• New Export As Still(s) command (full resolution or limited size suitable for emailing, archived as a zip file).
• Export Movie command allows export as AVI and other formats
• New Meta data column displays any QuickTime meta data that may be present in the media (such as copyright notices in movies, ID3 artist and album tags in MP3 tracks, or Exif exposure data in digital camera JPEG and TIFF files).
• Printing improvements (fully takes into account current view settings)
• Rotate thumbnails to match orientation of the image.
• Re-written movie importer to cope with and accurately report timecode discontinuities and incorrect movie lengths
• Ability to mark clips as hidden
• Improvements to the clip details dialog: the window is now resizable, provides immediate access to the User 1 to User 3 fields, and double clicking a value in the details table pops up a window to show long fields.
• Sorting columns now applies a numeric order (so "Clip 10" comes after "Clip 9" rather than before "Clip 2").
• Catalogs now store when they were created and last modified and by whom and have a catalog description field.
• Incorporated memory usage display within new Catalog Details command.
• New Detect Scenes command allowing movies to be imported first and then analysed and split into scenes later.
• New Make Clip Order Permanent command to rearrange clips in a catalog according to the current display order.
• Ability to move media files by editing the Path field.
• Added New Log Entry command.
• File choosers remember the last selected directory of each type.
• Other cosmetic and performance fixes (abbreviated column labels so they fit; moved the Preferences menu item to where it belongs under OS X; improved speed of grid view; clicking outside a selection now drops the selection; automatically select clips that have been added to catalog; reduced memory footprint of thumbnails; etc.)

New features in 2.0

• Improvements to clip details dialog, with a new toolbar and Preview tab panel, and improved navigation to other clips.
• Improved support for non-DV media formats (still images, MPEG, audio files, etc.)
• New media dialog to present movies, including full screen display. CatDV handles non-square pixels and both 4:3 and 16:9 DV movies are shown at the correct aspect ratio.
• New slide show mode (and related functionality, eg. randomizing clip order, rotating stills).
• Generation and display of low resolution preview movies (with choice of size and quality)
• Choice of thumbnail sizes; ability to rebuild thumbnails; ability to select new poster frame from Movie tab of details dialog; new Preferences option to specify midpoint rather than first frame as default poster.
• Improved file management (renaming or deleting a clip gives you option to do the same to the media file; new command to update media file location).
• New properties including "Good", "Status code", "Date", "Month", "Orientation", "QT Tracks", "Folder" and "Data rate".
• Much improved search and filter dialogs.
• Enhanced Export as movie(s) command, adding the ability to convert movies using a different codec and to add a date/time text track. There is also an explicit Consolidate footage command now for creating flattened movies from each clip.
• Program clips have been replaced by clip usages within a sequence. This is more flexible and allows EDLs to be exported as well as imported. Removed EDL import Preferences options as EDLs are always imported as a sequence now.
• New sequence view dialog and command to create sequences and allow simple cuts only editing.
• New icon-only grid view (at different sizes), allowing more clips to be visible within a window.
• New dialog to define custom view types and labels for the user-defined columns. Added a fourth user-defined property.
• Whole tape capture log now creates clips that can be exported in any of the supported batch file formats.
• All long-running operations such as imports now display a progress bar, with a Preferences option whether processing should take place in background or not.
• Preferences dialog has new tabs and a Default button to set factory defaults for many options.
• Rewrote portions of the EditDV project import handling, eg. to make handling of file names more robust and cross platform.
• Various other new menu commands, such as View marked clips, Scan for new files and Merge clips.
• More extensive use of tool tip text, eg. on table column headers.
• Renamed and rearranged several menu items to make them more consistent.
• Various performance improvements, eg. improved speed of thumbnail creation.
• Added export to Canopus file format
• New Preferences options to configure the default view when opening a window, appearance of toolbar and status line, and so on.
• Numerous other minor improvements and fixes, for example the name of an audio format, rather than just a code, is now displayed, thumbnails are always shown at the correct aspect ratio, new look toolbar, etc.