Re: How about CatDV Instead? by Nicholas Stokes on Jun 7, 2009 at 6:26:11 pm
I am a fan of using Cat DV to bring Avid media into Final Cut Pro, convert MXF footage into Quicktime. Also, you can use CatDV to create shot list of clips that can be injested into FCSvr.
Re: How about CatDV Instead? by John Heagy on Jun 9, 2009 at 2:22:00 pm
I too am a CatDV fan. It has a rich tool set built in, where FSC is nearly pure browse, proxy/transcode and access control. Nearly anything else needs to be scripted. CatDV has tools for logging, media management, scene detection, sub clipping, linking... etc. My favorite feature is it's ability to link QT media to edls, ales, batch lists and tab delimited text. To me this illustrates the difference between an app designed for video from the ground up, and nearly all others that started life as a pre-press/photo catalogs that had video support "tacked on". Having the 4th dimension (Time) as a foundation from the start is very key for me.
Of course there is pressure to use FSC because it is essentially free compared to the others.
Re: How about CatDV Instead? by Lucas Werneck on Jun 22, 2009 at 2:30:29 pm
And how about using CatDV+FCS? You can export from CatDV XML fcp project like and in theory import in FCS and in theory those metadata field would be populated.
Anyone tried or have any experience in this?
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