If you have Professional Edition you can easily use CatDV with Final Cut Pro.
Before you start, go to the User Columns tab in Preferences and press the FCP Preset button to set your user-defined column names to match Final Cut Pro. Also, if you want to use CatDV preview movies as OfflineRT previews in Final Cut Pro, then you should use the OfflineRT preset in Preferences to configure previews as follows: 320x240, Normal Quality, Maximum Frame Rate, Uncompressed Audio.
You can then use CatDV for logging and cataloging your clips, including features such as automatic scene detection, Verbatim Logger, and the building of previews, and export the data to Final Cut Pro for editing. If you use DV tapes you can proceed as follows:
Alternatively, if you're bringing clips into an existing Final Cut project you can simply drag them onto the Final Cut project node in CatDV's tree navigator at step 3.
You have now imported your CatDV clip definitions into your Final Cut Pro project, including both metadata and logging fields from CatDV and OfflineRT editing proxies. You can edit with these low-resolution proxies and then batch capture the full-resolution versions in the normal way (using the "Create offline" option in Media Manager to convert your sequence from OfflineRT to DV).
If you are ingesting formats other than DV, such as Beta SP, HDV, or Digi Beta, which are not supported in Live Capture Plus, you can do the following instead:
The converse is also possible. If you do your logging within Final Cut Pro you can export the clips from your browser window as an XML file and import these clips into CatDV, to build up a permanent searchable database of all your tapes and clips. (An easy way to export the file to CatDV is to save the XML file on the desktop and then drag it into the CatDV window.)
Note that the Final Cut Pro "Mark Good" checkbox corresponds to the "Mark" property in CatDV Pro (not the "Good" property), and that "Log notes" maps to "Notes" in CatDV, and "Reel" to "Tape". If you use the Label field then it's down to you to make sure you only choose valid labels in CatDV, otherwise you will get errors when you export a batch list and try to load it into Final Cut Pro.