Previews and thumbnails

A clip can have different types of media representation: small thumbnail images, the original movie or media file, and a low-resolution preview movie. A clip contains a reference to its media, not the media itself, so all these types of media can be shared by more than one clip.

Thumbnails

Original media

Previews

Locating media

CatDV can find the media for a clip in two distinct ways, by tape name or by file path.

Tape-based lookup:

Path-based lookup (of original media or low-res previews):

See also: Source media management, Preferences


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