All data within a CatDV catalog is held in the form of clips. There are different types of clip, such as still images, movie files, scenes within a movie, lines of an EDL or batch list, and so on.
Each clip has the following main properties or fields (also referred to as columns when clips are shown in a table). Additional fields that provide full details of the media file format that a clip was imported from are listed separately.
Some of these fields are editable while others are filled in automatically at the time of timport. Depending on the type of the clip, many of these fields will be blank.
| Name | name of the clip |
| Notes | description or other comments you enter about the clip |
| Bin | project bin or directory on disk where the clip came from, used for grouping clips |
| Tape | name of the tape or reel the clip is on |
| Import source | the file that details of this clip were imported from (eg. a movie file, EDL, or batch list) |
| Source media | the media file that holds the video data the clip refers to (not necessarily the same as the Import Source) |
| In & Out | timecode values for the whole clip. The Out point of a clip is the timecode of the frame after the last frame of this clip (and normally equals the In point of the following clip). |
| Duration | the corresponding clip length, i.e. the difference between In and Out points. |
| In2 & Out2 | timecode values for a selection made within the clip |
| Start & End | current clip bounds, either In/Out or In2/Out2 depending on the Export clips based on selection Preferences option |
| Poster | each clip has a poster thumbnail, normally the first frame of the clip but a different poster can be set in the clip details dialog |
| Mark | a general purpose check box to mark clips of interest or to save a selection |
| Hide | clips may be flagged as hidden so they don't normally appear unless the Show hidden menu command is used |
| Good | a general purpose status field to indicate whether the clip is usable or not |
| Status code | summarise the results of reviewing a clip (combination of "Good" status with whether a selection has been made) |
| Exposure | a summary of the camera exposure details (available with some DV camcorders) |
| Record date | the original date/time of recording of the clip or image (available with some DV camcorders and digital cameras) |
| Date | either the DV record date, or the first modification time of the source media (which normally corresponds to the time of capture) |
| User 1 to User 3 | general purpose user-defined text fields |
| Transition & Seq. no. | available when importing EDLs (edit decision lists) |
| Online | indicate whether the clip is online, or a preview or thumbnail is available |
| Used | how many sequences a clip appears in (this indicates whether a clip is used in a project or not). |
| Type | clip type, whether still, audio or movie file, clip within an EDL or batch list, or scene within a movie. For scenes the icon indicates whether a definite scene change at the start or end of the clip has been identified. |
| Format | A summary of the format of the movie (whether DV, other QuickTime movie, still, etc.). See the list of media-related properties for more details about the media file. |
Some of these properties might appear more than once with similar names, for example where long and short forms of the same data are available. Use tool tip text (hover the mouse pointer over a field name) to show a short description of the field if you are unsure which property you are viewing.