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CatDV is described as a "logging and cataloging" application but it's really intended as a kind of "Swiss army knife" for video editors, designed to help them get the most out of the DV format in all sorts of ways. It also provides support for users of digital cameras. Some of its features include:

• Automatically detecting scene boundaries within captured movies.
• Building up a catalog of clips and where they are used.
• Creating and managing compact preview movies to indicate the contents of a tape even when the full resolution media is offline.
• Importing and converting between various file formats, including EDLs, NLE projects, capture logs, tab separated text files, and HTML.
• Consolidating a mass of clip details (with timecode values, names, and thumbnails) to a manageable amount and producing a concise overview of the contents of each tape or project.
• Extracting and displaying all the "extra" data provided by the DV format (date and time of recording, camera timecode, and exposure and shutter details), even if these aren't supported by your capture or editing application.
• Catalog any type of media file, including stills etc.
• Allowing you to mark new in and out points while playing back movies, create and name secondary clips, and enter and display other data useful during the logging process.
• Writing new movie files for each clip in its catalog, whether these clips come from automatic scene detection, manual logging, or importing a file from another application.
• Highly flexible sorting, searching, display and printing options.
• Spreadsheet-like timecode calculations when offset adjustments are required.
• CatDV and its catalogs are totally cross platform and support virtually all standard media file formats and applications, including QuickTime, DV, AVI, EditDV, CMX3600 EDLs, Adobe Premiere, Cinestream, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and many more.