Professional Edition Features

The Professional Edition has several features over and above the standard Personal Edition:

Workgroup features

The Professional Edition has an additional Workgroup menu that contains commands to share catalogs with other users and search for clips across catalogs in a central clip database.

Enhanced searching and filtering

The Professional Edition features a powerful, completely new query dialog, used for both searching within a catalog and when performing remote queries against the shared database (with the optional Workgroup Server). Queries can contain any number of terms, be combined with logical OR and AND operations, and include regular expressions. Queries can also be named and saved for future use. There is a new toolbar Filter drop down that can be used to apply a named clip filter to the window. The Professional Edition also features a powerful Search and Replace tool that allows textual replacements to be made across any logging field, including regular expression pattern matching.

Unlimited user defined fields

The Professional Edition allows you to create an unlimited number of user-defined fields, compared with the standard number of three. These can be used to record details such as videographer, producer, project, location, and so on. Each field can store up to 64K of text and is fully searchable. The clip details window provides immediate access to user fields 1 to 6, and access via a scrolling list to the other fields.

Improved importers and exporters

The Professional Edition supports several additional file formats, including Final Cut Pro, Avid, dpsVelocity and XML.

Analog scene detection

The Professional Edition lets you perform automatic scene detection on clips subsequent to them being imported, via a separate Detect Scenes command, and also lets you tune the sensitivity for this operation. This is useful if too many false scene changes are detected, or if scene changes are missed with the default setting.

Timezone adjustments

To allow footage from different cameras, perhaps shot at different locations around the world, to be accurately correlated by date the Professional Edition has a Timezone Adjustment command allows the date to be adjusted based on timezone and camera clock differences.

JKL jog-shuttle keys

The Professional Edition supports the use of standard JKL keys to play media backwards or forwards at different speeds in both the clip details dialog, in the media dialog and when playing full screen.

Additional clip fields

To support these features and more, the Professional Edition supports several additional columns. These include Aux T/C (which displays the user-settable timecode field supported by some DV cameras), GMT Date, Location Date, Location Timezone, Clock Adjustment, Catalog and Catalog Notes.

Customisable preview settings

In Preferences you can customise the size of previews and the compression setting used in addition to using one of the presets.