- New Server Shortcuts window with buttons to log on to the server and perform queries. This is intended for use as an application launch action (via Appearance tab of Preferences). Renamed the Workgroup menu to the Server menu.
- The new Clip Summary dialog provides a nicely formatted view of a clip’s details. Fields are colour-coded according to whether they are logging fields, technical metadata (such as codec details), or other metadata (such as Exif or ID3 annotations). This view is read-only; use the Clip Details dialog if you want to edit the clip.
- When you perform a query against the server (Pro version only) or apply a quick filter then bring up the Clip Summary window all the matching keywords are automatically highlighted.
- You can no longer edit cells in a list view by default unless you enable cell editing via Preferences (this prevents you from accidentally selecting the contents of a cell when you want to double click a clip).
- The new Build Thumbnails command lets you create additional thumbnails for a clip, for example one every 5 seconds. The View Thumbnails command (and an associated new thumbnail summary mode) will display all the thumbnails for selected clips. Together these let you visualise a clip as a sequence of thumbnails. (This view also provides a convenient way to delete unwanted thumbnails.) Note that creating a large number of extra thumbnails will increase the size of catalogs and the time to publish and load catalogs from the server!
- Improved OMF support (Pro version only), including playback of motion JPEG encoded files and better metadata extraction.
- Ability to trim clips in the sequence editor. Double click a clip in the sequence to bring up the clip details where you can adjust the In and Out points.
- The quick filter search field now accepts double quotes to search for an exact phrase containing spaces.
- Added support for reading timecode markers from Final Cut Pro XML files (Pro version only). These appear as comments in the Notes field.
- The Verbatim Logger has a new option to save entered text in the Notes field rather than always creating subclips (Pro version only).
- Many bug fixes, including no longer keeping files locked after importing or playing a movie, fix occasional grey rectangles under menus (Windows), fix crash when leaving fullscreen mode (Mac), fix occasional corrupt thumbnails, fix application sometimes quitting when you use the quick filter field, fixes related to proxy creation and exporting movies, etc.
- Tidied movie importer so it reports frame rate more accurately and doesn’t report so many “broken movie” false alarms
- Zooming in the sequence editor timeline no longer loses your position
- New Movie preload timeout advanced option to support playback of MXF movies using Flip4Mac (Mac only)
- New advanced Preferences option to show attribute IDs alongside field names in drop down lists to disambiguate properties with similar names.
- When exporting stills you can now choose the compression quality
- Added Save Column Widths command to remember manually adjusted widths (which you can do by dragging column headers) in the current view definition
- New option to recycle query results window to avoid explosion of new windows when performing queries against the server
- Support for optional plug-in API and renaming of built-in properties (for use by OEM manufacturers and systems integrators)
- Many other minor improvements, such as increasing the duration of tool tips, adding a “customise” option to the the View drop down in the toolbar, Verbatim Logger subclips include the name of the parent clip, and a new Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-S keyboard shortcut to toggle in and out of summary mode.
- Ability to edit simple sequences by dragging and dropping clips in a timeline view
- Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macintoshes
- Online help is now searchable, with keywords highlighted in the search results
- New command to Adjust Frame Size of QuickTime movies
- You can now import and catalog arbitrary non-media file types, such as text documents, project files, spreadsheets, Word documents, and so on. (This feature is disabled by default and needs to be enabled via Advanced preferences.) (Professional Edition only)
- New metadata columns, including FileExtension, MacType, MacCreator
- Improved handling of OMF media files (better metadata extraction; DV OMF files of any length can now be played, exported or converted to proxies) (Professional Edition only)
- Improved importing of Final Cut Pro XML files, including support for nested sequences (Professional Edition only)
- More reliable launching of Live Capture Plus from within CatDV.
- Stability fixes when playing media from details dialog
- The tape drop down in the clip details dialog has been disabled to prevent accidental changes (use Bulk Edit or drag and drop to correct the tape if necessary)
- If a media file has moved you are prompted to locate it when you try to play it
- Many other fixes, such as better handling of zero duration clips and “huge” thumbnails
Server changes
The following features are relevant to the client-server version of CatDV, in particular the new Enterprise Edition of the workgroup client:
- CatDV now supports access control (when used with the Enterprise server).
- There is a new Server Admin Panel with tabs for viewing status information and creating users and groups
- There is a new Log In Details dialog, to support connecting to the Workgroup Server and logging on to the Enterprise Server
- A new Catalog Information dialog, available via the Browse Database command, allows the group and user that a catalog belongs to to be changed
- New columns Group and User, for grouping clips and when performing remote queries
- You can now save sequences to the database
- New Tape Details dialog
- New Library Management window with view of all tapes and clips on them
- Support for an optional barcode scanner
- Some Server menu commands have been renamed (or moved to the Server Admin Panel) to make them clearer
For further details please read about the new Enterprise features or consult the documentation that comes with the server.