UK-based software company Square Box Systems announced today that they will launch CatDV10, a major update to their award-winning media asset management and production workflow software, at IBC2012 which runs at Amsterdam RAI from 7 to 11 September.
Featuring an intuitive, user-friendly interface and powerful logging tools, CatDV 10 allows users to catalogue and manage their media files wherever they are, in both single user and networked environments.
Uniquely, CatDV 10 can be used either as a standalone desktop application or with the optional CatDV Server 6.7 and CatDV Worker Node 5.0 to support fully networked and automated multi-user operation, turning it into the communication tool at the heart of a modern production workflow, used by editors, producers, librarians and clients to locate and share their media assets.
CatDV is a cross-platform software-based solution, so customers are not tied into particular hardware or storage products. CatDV 10 integrates will all the major edit platforms, including Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software, Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and X, and AVID Media Composer, and supports 3rd party integration with popular archiving products such as Archiware, Atempo, Cache-A, DAX Archiving, Object Matrix, Sony Optical Disc Archive, Storage DNA, Quantum, and XenData.
Working in collaboration with Adobe, CatDV 10 features greatly improved integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. For standalone users there is a new Send To Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 command that will export clips and sequences (created using CatDV’s built-in rough cut editor), together with metadata such as log notes and markers, into the current project. It is also possible to export projects from Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and add them to the CatDV database so they become assets that can be searched and shared.
For networked users, a CatDV search panel can be installed inside the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 software, allowing users to log on and search the central CatDV database, then play and drag the required files into their project, all directly from within Adobe Premiere Pro itself.
Other new features in CatDV 10 include a new “Slate’ look and feel used consistently throughout the CatDV product family, a new pluggable exporter framework to support transcoding using different media libraries, improved ALE support, a Disk Space Tool for monitoring disk usage and finding duplicate files, and support for Cache-A library devices.
There are also many improvements to simplify using CatDV 10 in a corporate environment, including integration with an Active Directory server via LDAP, the ability to use the CatDV Server as a central license server (avoiding the need to install the CatDV license separately on each client machine), and support for using MS SQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL as the database engine (as an alternative to MySQL).
