BROWSE CATDV SUPPORT MANUALS
- PRODUCT MANUALS
- CatDV Clients
- CatDV Server
- CatDV Server 7.1 Manual
- CatDV Server 6.x Manual
- Worker Node
- CatDV Worker 5 Manual
- CatDV Worker 6 Manual
- Getting Started
- Configuring the Worker
- Configuring the Worker
- Work Sets and Watch Actions
- File Triggered Tasks
- Pre-Processing
- Importing Media Files
- Automatically keeping catalogs in sync with a disk or folder
- CatDV XML batch files (v1)
- New CatDV XML files (v2)
- Metadata Extraction Rules
- Exporting watch definitions
- Server Triggered Tasks
- Specifying a Root Folder
- Job Definitions
- Variable expressions
- Regular Expressions
- Naming Files
- Transcoding
- Exporting Stills
- Batch operation
- Batch vs individual operations
- Offline workflows: batch import and reanalyse media
- Development mode
- Hints and tips for developing efficient Worker Node scripts
- Command Line Interface
- Configuring the worker via XML
- Support
- Web Client
- Other Products
- Amazon Plug In
- Azure Plug In
- Black Pearl Plug In
- Adobe Premiere Integration
- FCS Import Tool
- Live HTML Publisher
- Installing Live HTML Publisher
- Using Live HTML Publisher
- Introduction
- Installation on Apache Tomcat
- Installation under Oracle OC4J
- Installation on Other Platforms
- Upgrading Live HTML Publisher
- Troubleshooting
- Overview
- Customising JSPs
- CatDV Tag Library
- Displaying Objects and Lists
- Configuring Live HTML Publisher
- Live Capture Plus
- Tricaster Plug-in
- CatDV ADA Archive Additions
- CatDV StorNext Archive Additons
- CATDV TUTORIALS
- Video Tutorials
- Tutorials
- Media Formats
- Ingest
- Transcoding
- Getting Organized
- Getting started with CatDV
- Benefits of CatDV catalogs
- Setting up Custom Metadata
- Ensuring Consistency: Picklists
- Customising Catalog Display
- Customising Event Markers
- Customising Metadata Display
- Verbatim Logging with CatDV
- Customising Clip Previews
- Managing Thumbnails
- Adding OSX colour tags to files using a Worker action
- Consumer Digital Photo Workflow
- The Bulk Edit Tool
- CatDV Pegasus
- Editing and Finishing
- Collaborative Workflow
- Media Delivery
- Archiving
- Technical Topics
- Using the Server Control Panel
- Setting Proxy Paths
- Desktop Streaming Proxies
- Migration to CatDV
- Large Metadata fields
- Printing CatDV Preferences
- CatDV Web Access via a DMZ
- Guidance on Filenames
- Optimizing Tables in MySQL
- Fixing Worker Command Failures
- Guidance on running CatDV Server in a VMware virtual environment
- Resilience & Housekeeping
- Technical Support
- FAQs
- All FAQs
- Catdv on Windows with apple QuickTime
- Server 7 Upgrade Procedure
- Server 7 Web Proxy Path Mappings
- Server 7 Upgrade Procedure
- Adobe Premiere Panel Plug-in Manual Installation Guide
- Removing CatDV Server from OSX
- Auto-starting MySQL on Yosemite
- MySQL Permissions Fix
- MPEG2 Playback Disabled
- Limitations when using CatDV Clients inside Virtual Machines
- CatDV on Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
- Shellshocker bash vulnerability
- Send to Adobe CC 2014 not working
- CatDV and Heartbleed
- Can’t find Quicktime for Java
- XDCAM/AVC playback problems
- CatDV on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
- Dates prior to 1970
- Cache-A “Failed to Get Drive List”
- Proxy Path Searching
- Location of Log Files
- Clip Viewer plays black video
- Worker Tips
- Java Security Issues
- Exporting Logs to Support
- Failed to Get Clips: 500
- Working with AVCHD .mts files
- CatDV on a PowerPC Mac’
- playing RED .r3d files
- Troubleshooting Web Client Proxies
- Worker Repeating Actions
- Unknown Type 49
- Pink and Green Stripes
- Problems with Cache-A
- Third Party Codec Crashes
- Remote Installation
- Slow Database Startup
- CatDV Pro is damaged …
- Client
- Catdv on Windows with apple QuickTime
- MPEG2 Playback Disabled
- Limitations when using CatDV Clients inside Virtual Machines
- CatDV on Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
- Shellshocker bash vulnerability
- Send to Adobe CC 2014 not working
- CatDV and Heartbleed
- Can’t find Quicktime for Java
- XDCAM/AVC playback problems
- CatDV on OSX 10.9 Mavericks
- Dates prior to 1970
- Cache-A “Failed to Get Drive List”
- Proxy Path Searching
- Location of Log Files
- Exporting Logs to Support
- Working with AVCHD .mts files
- CatDV on a PowerPC Mac’
- playing RED .r3d files
- Unknown Type 49
- Pink and Green Stripes
- Problems with Cache-A
- Third Party Codec Crashes
- CatDV Pro is damaged …
- Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit Will Not Install
- Server
- Server 7 Upgrade Procedure
- Server 7 Web Proxy Path Mappings
- Adobe Premiere Panel Plug-in Manual Installation Guide
- Removing CatDV Server from OSX
- Auto-starting MySQL on Yosemite
- MySQL Permissions Fix
- Limitations when using CatDV Clients inside Virtual Machines
- CatDV on Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
- Shellshocker bash vulnerability
- Send to Adobe CC 2014 not working
- CatDV and Heartbleed
- Exporting Logs to Support
- Remote Installation
- Slow Database Startup
- Glacier Vault
- Worker
- Limitations when using CatDV Clients inside Virtual Machines
- CatDV on Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
- Shellshocker bash vulnerability
- Send to Adobe CC 2014 not working
- CatDV and Heartbleed
- Proxy Path Searching
- Location of Log Files
- Worker Tips
- Exporting Logs to Support
- Worker Repeating Actions
- Unknown Type 49
- Problems with Cache-A
- Third Party Codec Crashes
- Worker Backup Plugin
- Web
- Server 7 Upgrade Procedure
- Server 7 Web Proxy Path Mappings
- Limitations when using CatDV Clients inside Virtual Machines
- CatDV on Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
- Shellshocker bash vulnerability
- Send to Adobe CC 2014 not working
- CatDV and Heartbleed
- Exporting Logs to Support
- Failed to Get Clips: 500
- Troubleshooting Web Client Proxies
- Web Proxy Support Page
- All FAQs
The CatDV Worker Node is an automated version of the media processing engine found in the CatDV Pro application. It has two main components, the file watcher that watches one or more watch folders looking for new files to process, and the worker, a background thread which waits for and then processes the next available item from a queue of tasks.
The worker node must be configured to define which watch folders it monitors, what operation(s) to perform on these files, and how to access the CatDV server.
To configure the worker you specify:
- common definitions, such as the host name of the CatDV Workgroup or Enterprise Server, or details of an SMTP server for sending email notifications
- the location of the task queue file that the file watchers will add items to and the worker thread will remove items from as it processes them
- a definition of how items are added to the queue, ie. which folder to watch and any filter conditions that the file must fulfil to be processed (such as its filename matching a particular pattern, or it containing media in a particular format)
- a definition of what operations to apply to matching files. Supported operations that can be performed include the following:
- analyse the file to extract technical metadata such as the video and audio format, sample rate, timecode etc.
- perform automatic scene detection to create separate clips for each scene
- create a CatDV preview movie from the media, or convert it to another format using anarbitrary QuickTime exporter and codec
- publish the clips (ie. details of the file and any scenes that were detected) to the CatDV server
- generate or update an HTML index page listing the processed clips
- send an email notification to selected users notifying them of the new file(s)
- execute an arbitrary operating system command, such as uploading the files to an FTP server, running a shell script or batch file, or anything else.
- move or delete the original media file once it has been processed or convertedThe combination of a watch folder, filter condition and job definition is known as a “watch action”. You can define as many watch actions as you want, all with different filter conditions, to automatically process different kinds of file in different ways.The combination of a task queue file plus a set of watch actions that will cause items to be added to the queue is known as a “work set”. The work set represents a queue of tasks to be performed (or that have already been performed recently).