Re: Catalog Limitation Organization Questions

Thanks again for the responses. Yes, moving forward, I can create new catalogs based on the acquisition of footage. If all the catalogs I create can be seamlessly searched as one large database then that is great.

What is a more of a problem right now is dealing with the thousands of files we already have. You asked about our structure. It looks something like this at the root level:

Continent 1
Continent 2
Continent 3
Continent 4
Continent 5
Continent 6

with country sub-folders beneath them that look like this:

Continent 1
|___Country 1
|___Country 2
|___Country 3, etc.

Continent 2
|___Country 1
|___Country 2
|___Country 3, etc.

Continent 3
|___Country 1
|___Country 2
|___Country 3, etc.

and then region folders:

Continent 3
|___Country 1
. |___Region 1
. |___Region 2, etc.

Most of the video clips are in the region folders. Some that cannot be classified reside at the country level.

I suppose the best way to handle it is to create a catalog for each region, since the total number of clips inside those folders is well below 3000, then create country catalogs for those clips not in the region folders. I assume this is the most logical way to do things but if not please point me in the right direction.

My only question is what happens if any of the video clips are moved subsequent to them being imported in these catalogs? If, after having been cataloged, I discover clips the wrong folder and move them to the correct location won't that invalidate the catalog(s)? What do you do to handle that? Can CatDV move files and update the appropriate catalog(s)?

Thanks,
Jeff Schaap