Exporting clips and movies

You can export clip definitions from a CatDV catalog in various formats for use in other applications. Some of these commands export the media itself, while others export references to the media including metadata.

Select the clips you want to export from the main window and use one of the Export As commands:

Use the Export Clips Based On Selection checkbox in Preferences to select whether the whole clip (as defined by its "in" and "out" timecode values) or a selected portion within each clip (as defined by "in2" and "out2") is exported by default. (If a clip has no selection the whole clip is always used.)

Note that the trial version of CatDV will not normally let you export or print clip definitions.

Exporting Movies

You can export movies from CatDV in several formats, either from the original media (if currently online) or from CatDV's preview versions if you have created them.

HTML Export

You can export selected clips and their poster thumbnails as a simple HTML catalog. There are two options:

With both types of export you can choose which columns to list on an index page and whether to include a separate detail page for each clip or not. You can also add a custom footer to each page. (A separate feature to create an HTML index is also included with the Export As Stll command.)

Note that pages exported from within CatDV form a static snapshot of the catalog at the time of the export. With the CatDV Server and optional Live HTML Publisher component you can make similar information available as a dynamic view of the current contents of the central database. The Live HTML Publisher also provides dynamic searching capabilities.


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